A Case Study: The Limits of Workplace Health and Safety Reform in Liberal Economies

ON A WINTRY DAY LAST DECEMBER, nearly 20 years to the day after the nation's lawmakers approved the Occupational Safety and Health Act that aimed to substantially curb the injury, illness and death that are an everyday fact of life in America's workplaces, New Solutions convened a panel of invited guests at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., to gauge just how far we have come. Earlier, in the premiere issue of New Solutions, we had run Charles Noble's analysis of “OSHA at 20.” It gave us starting points for a searching discussion of workplace health and safety in this country from the many perspectives that were represented by our panelists (see box, page 65). All of the opinions and comments made during the discussion represent the participants' own viewpoints and are in no way a reflection of the opinions or views of the agencies or organizations with which they are associated. We asked panelists Charles Noble and Richard Pfeffer to begin the discussion with their analyses of the problems. The talk went on for hours, all of it captured on tape. Insights were plentiful; frustrations were obvious; the suggestions, many. Here is Part 1 of a two-part edited transcript of the Roundtable on OSHA, the agency that is 20 years old this April, and the OSH Act which established it. Part 2 will run in an upcoming issue of this journal. We invite you to join the controversy with your letters and longer comments.

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Workplace Health and Safety Service

Encyclopedia of Public Health ◽

10.1007/978-1-4020-5614-7_3792 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 1473-1473

Keyword(s):

Health And Safety ◽

Workplace Health ◽

Workplace Health And Safety

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The Interface of Safety and Security; The Workplace

The Coupling of Safety and Security - SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-47229-0_10 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 97-104

Author(s):

George Boustras

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Organizational Level ◽

Direct Result ◽

Psychosocial Issues ◽

Workplace Health ◽

Workplace Health And Safety ◽

Main Factors

Abstract 9/11 had a great impact on the development and occurrence of high publicity security-related incidents. One of the biggest impacts was that to public health, due to an increase in psychosocial issues. Cybersecurity incidents and processes of radicalization (either due to religious, political, or economic reasons) can have a direct result on the workplace as well as at the organizational level, which in turn can affect the worker. The aim of this chapter is to explain the main factors linking safety and security, creating a new area for workplace health and safety, that of the “interface of safety and security”.

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