David Walters - Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation

Workplace Health and Safety

Also by David Walters and Theo Nichols

WORKER REPRESENTATION AND WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

Also by David Walters

REGULATING HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK: The Way Forward (with Phil James)
HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SMALL ENTERPRISES
REGULATING HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION WORKING SAFETY IN SMALL ENTERPRISES IN EUROPE
REGULATING HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK: An Agenda for Change? (with Phil James)
BEYOND LIMITS? Dealing with Chemical Risks at Work in Europe (with Karola Grodzki)
SUPPORTING HEALTH AT WORK: International Perspectives on Occupational Health Services (with Peter Westerholm)
WORKER REPRESENTATION AND WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY (with Theo Nichols)
WITHIN REACH? Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises

Other books by Theo Nichols

OWNERSHIP, CONTROL AND IDEOLOGY
WORKERS DIVIDED: A Study of Shopfloor Politics (with Peter Armstrong)
LIVING WITH CAPITALISM: Class Relations in the Modern Factory (with Huw Beynon)
CAPITAL AND LABOUR: Studies in the Capitalist Labour Process
WHITE COLLAR WORKERS, TRADE UNIONS AND CLASS (with Peter Armstrong, Bob Carter and Chris Smith)
THE BRITISH WORKER QUESTION: A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing Work and Occupation in Modern Turkey (with Erol Kahveci and Nadir Sugur)
THE SOCIOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL INJURY: GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, LOCAL LABOUR: Turkish Workers and Modern Industry (with Nadir Sugur)
LABOUR IN A GLOBAL WORLD: Case Studies from the White Goods Industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe (with Surhan Cam)
THE OTHER CAR WORKERS: Work, Organisation and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry (with Erol Kahveci)
THE FORDISM OF FORD AND MODERN MANAGEMENT: Fordism and Post- Fordism, 2 vols (with Huw Beynon)
PATTERNS OF WORK IN THE POST FORDIST ERA, FORDISM AND POST-FORDISM, 2 vols (with Huw Beynon)
WORKER REPRESENTATION AND WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY (with David Walters)

International Perspectives on Worker Representation

Edited by

David Walters

Professor of Work Environment, Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

and

Theo Nichols

Distinguished Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

Selection and editorial matter David Walters and Theo Nichols 2009
Individual chapters the contributors 2009

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Workplace health and safety : international perspectives on worker
representation / edited by David Walters and Theo Nichols.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-230-21485-9 (alk. paper)
1. Industrial hygiene. 2. Industrial safety. 3. Industrial relations.
4. Industrial managementEmployee participation. I. Walters,
David, 1950- II. Nichols, Theo.
HD7261.W68 2009
363.11dc22 2009013640

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18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09

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This book developed from a seminar organised by the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC) and held at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University in October 2007. We are grateful for the financial support for this seminar, provided by the School of Social Sciences, the Health and Safety Office of the European Trades Union Institute (ETUI) and from sponsorship of CWERC by the Institution for Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), Remploy and the Royal Mail. An earlier version of .

We are especially grateful to Sandra Bonney for her help in producing some of the figures and tables and the final text of the present volume.

Dace Calite is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Ventspils, Latvia, and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, University of Latvia.

Marlea Clarke is completing a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University, Canada. She is also working on the project reported here and has recently completed a Ph.D. on precarious employment in South Africa.

Thomas Coutrot is a senior social science researcher at Dares, Ministry of Labour, France.

Alice de Wolff has worked as a community researcher on a number of projects. Most recently she was the community co-chair of the Community University Research Alliance on Precarious Employment at York University, Canada.

Isabel Dudzinski is research manager at the Trade Union Institute for Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS Instituto Sindical de Trabajo, Ambiente y Salud), Madrid, Spain.

Kaj Frick is a professor at Lule and Mlardalen Universities, and before its closure in 2007 was a senior researcher at the National Institute for Working Life, Sweden.

Rafael Gadea is a technician and researcher at the Trade Union Institute for Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS, Valencia, Spain).

Ana Maria Garca is an epidemiologist, occupational health researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain. She also is a technician at the Trade Union Institute for Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS, Valencia, Spain) where she mostly supports research activities.

Maria J. Lpez-Jacob is a technician researcher at the Trade Union Institute for Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS, Madrid, Spain).