European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Worker participation in the management of occupational safety and health: qualitative evidence from ESENER-2
European Risk Observatory Overview report
Table of contents
Executive Summary
Key findings
The determinants of practice
Workplace size and sector
Relations with safety management systems within establishments
Influence of union membership and other arrangements for collective bargaining in establishments
Influences of the employment contract
Change in what is valued
The impact of economic crises
Concluding remarks
1 Introduction
1.1 Questions of definition
1.2 The structure of the report
2 Current knowledge of worker representation on occupational safety and health
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The effectiveness and coverage of worker representation on health and safety
2.2.1 Characteristics of health and safety representatives
2.2.2 Activities of worker representatives on health and safety
2.2.3 Effectiveness
2.2.4 What makes worker representation effective?
2.3 The institutional structure and contexts for the practice of worker representation on occupational safety and health in seven EU Member States
2.3.1 Institutional labour relations contexts
2.3.2 Inclusions and exclusions in the statutory provisions
2.3.3 Enhancements to the regulatory measures
2.4 Wider national contexts
2.5 Conclusions: representing workers’ occupational safety and health, regulation, industrial relations and times of change
3 Research methods
3.1 The consortium and methodological approach
3.2 The national contexts
3.3 ESENER-2 secondary analysis
3.4 The cases
3.4.1 Sampling
3.4.2 Fieldwork
3.4.3 Analyses
3.5 The data
4 A quantitative analysis of worker representation on health and safety in seven Member States of the EU - drawing on the findings from ESENER-2 and national data
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Worker representation on occupational safety and health in ESENER-2
4.3 Involvement
4.4 Participatio
4.5 Comparisons with national data
4.6 Scrutiny of ESENER-2 for associations between worker participation and good workplace occupational safety and health practice
4.7 Conclusions
5 Representing workers on occupational safety and health - patterns of representation and relations with occupational safety and health risk management in establishments with formal arrangements
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Patterns of worker representation on occupational safety and health in the cases and countries studied
5.3 Risk assessment, occupational safety and health management and the role of worker representation
5.3.1 Risk assessment and representation in other countries
5.4 Qualitative experiences of risk assessment and evaluation of psychosocial risks
5.5 Conclusions
6 Supporting representation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Time to undertake occupational safety and health representative activities
6.3 Supporting training for health and safety representatives
6.4 Obtaining and using information
6.5 Support from workers and workers’ organisation in the establishments
6.6 Using statutory powers autonomously: stopping dangerous work
7 Experiences of representing workers on occupational safety and health if formal arrangements are absent
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Establishment size and formal arrangements for worker representation on occupational safety and health
7.3 The practice of representing employees on occupational safety and health in small and micro firms - evidence from the cases
7.3.1 Some general features of employee participation arrangements in smaller establishments in the seven countries
7.3.2 Sector, size and their effects on risk assessment and management in small establishments
7.3.3 Business dependency, contracting and arrangements for worker representation
7.3.4 Arrangements for worker participation in small firms - a summary
7.4 Other arrangements for worker ‘representation’ on occupational safety and health
7.5 Conclusions
8 Discussion and conclusions
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Key findings concerning the practice of worker representation
8.2.1 Some caveats concerning bias
8.3 What determines practice in worker representation on occupational safety and health
8.3.1 Workplace size and sector
8.3.2 Relations with safety management systems within establishments
8.3.3 Union membership and wider arrangements for collective bargaining at the establishment
8.3.4 Influences of the employment contract
8.3.5 The impact of economic crises
8.4 Concluding remarks
References
Annex
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