Characteristics of Effective Job Health and Safety Committees

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Morse ◽  
Jeanette Goyzueta ◽  
Leslie Curry ◽  
Nicholas Warren
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Committees

Occupational health and safety: a comment on Mullen

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Farlow
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
Interpretation Of Results

The paper by Elizabeth A. Mullen (1990) contains a number of assumptions and assertions that cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged. In addition, the survey itself seems to be based on an inappropriate sample with the particular interpretation of results creating a potentially false impression. The debate concerning the Code of Practice for Health and Safety Representatives and Health and Safety Committees has often been plagued with confusion and misunderstanding and, regrettably, Mullen's paper continues these problems.

Statutory Safety Representatives and Safety Committees: Legal and Industrial Relations Implications

1982 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.B. Creighton
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Statutory Provision ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
Structured System ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
Practical Implications

This article examines the increasingly important issue of the role of statutory safety representatives and safety committees in helping to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of the Australian workforce. It consists first of an examination of the development of statutory provision in this area in the United Kingdom, culminating in the passing of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the introduction of the far-reaching Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations of 1977. It then describes and analyses the reception of these provisions, and the philosophy which underpins them, in Australia. Thirdly, it attempts to identify and discuss some of the more important legal and practical implications of this kind of statutory provision. There is reason to suppose that some of these issues have not been analysed in sufficient detail in either Britain or Australia, but overall it is clear that a properly structured system of statutory safety representatives/com mittees can play an important and constructive part in helping to promote a proper awareness of health and safety issues in this country.

The depoliticization of health and safety committees and representation: The Ontario case

2021 ◽  
pp. 030981682110615
Author(s):  
Alan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Canadian Data ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Responsibility System

Studies in several national jurisdictions have highlighted the limitations of joint health and safety committees and worker representatives in affecting change in working conditions. Using Canadian data, this article focuses on the argument that many health and safety committees and worker representatives have been captured or substantially controlled through the State’s promotion of an internal responsibility system framed around a technocratic partnership. The historical development of this framing is first understood within a political economic framework which highlights several major influences, followed by a field theory analysis which explains how these control relations are established by management within workplace settings.

Form and Function of Joint Health and Safety Committees in Ontario Acute Care Hospitals

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Nichol ◽  
Irena Kudla ◽  
Michael Manno ◽  
Lisa McCaskell ◽  
Joseline Sikorski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Acute Care Hospitals ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
And Function

Trade Unions, Institutional Mediation and Industrial Safety

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Nichols ◽  
David Walters ◽  
Ali C. Tasiran
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Injury Rates ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
Safety Committees

Results of studies that examine the relation between trade union presence and injury rates are often indeterminate and trade unions are sometimes apparently associated with danger not safety. The British WIRS data set has provided a unique resource whereby researchers may examine the relation between trade unions and injury rates as mediated through particular arrangements for health and safety. Yet here, too, most investigations have failed to find a negative relation. It is in this context that this article returns to the original data. Utilizing improved statistical techniques, it concludes that cases where trade unions have an input into health and safety committees and where there are representatives are to be preferred to those where there is no such trade union input or no representatives. It argues that considerable strengthening of regulatory provision is required on employee representation and consultation if health and safety is to be improved.

scholarly journals Setting priorities: chemical hazard assessment and prioritization (CHAP): an intuitive excel tool

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Joo
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Assessment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Hazardous Chemicals ◽  
Chemical Hazard ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees

The purpose of CHAP is to assist small to medium workplaces and their Joint Health and Safety Committees to: 1. Better understand the hazards associated with the chemicals/products they are using; and 2. Prioritize the most ‘hazardous’ chemicals/products for additional assessment of the effectiveness of control measures which are currently in-place.

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