Arrangements for workers' safety and health in container terminals: Corporate core values and concrete practice

Walters, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1938 and Wadsworth, Emma 2022. Arrangements for workers' safety and health in container terminals: Corporate core values and concrete practice. Economic and Industrial Democracy 43 (1) , pp. 303-321. 10.1177/0143831X19893767

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Abstract

This article presents an account of corporate strategies for occupational safety and health (OSH) management in container terminals operated by large global companies in four countries, and their delivery in the operation of terminal work activities. It indicates a substantial gap between these aims and approaches, their orientation at corporate and terminal management levels and the workers’ experiences in the terminals. While this gap is evident everywhere, it is considerably more pronounced in the terminals of the low-income country included in the study. The article indicates that in day-to-day practice, OSH is principally addressed through behaviour control strategies that fail to reach many aspects of occupational health and safety that workers perceive as important. It further indicates that contractor workers are hardest hit by such practice and suggests a radical rethinking of corporate approaches to safety and health is required to justify the claim that they represent ‘corporate core values’.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0143-831X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 January 2020
Date of Acceptance:	19 November 2019
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2024 17:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128468

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