Representing workers on occupational safety and health: some lessons from a largely ignored history

Walters, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1938 and Quinlan, Michael 2019. Representing workers on occupational safety and health: some lessons from a largely ignored history. Industrial Relations Journal 50 (4) , pp. 399-414. 10.1111/irj.12268 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

The decade from 1970 witnessed major reforms of occupational health and safety (OSH) laws in Western Europe, North America and Australasia. The establishment of worker representation in OSH was one of their most significant features. Largely overlooked in commentary then or since however was the fact that worker representation in safety had a far longer history, having operated in coal mining from a century earlier in some countries. The purpose of this paper is not so much to fill this historical gap as to examine this earlier development in terms of its contribution to better understand worker representation in OSH at the present time.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0019-8692
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 July 2019
Date of Acceptance:	15 July 2019
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2024 19:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/124378

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