Health and Safety in UK Law
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Health, Safety and Industrial Democracy: Some Further Considerations
In a recent article in this journal Geoffrey Stuttard argued that the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 which provide for union appointed safety representatives have important im...
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Workplace boredom coping: health, safety, and HR implications
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how people cope with boredom at work, and whether differences in “boredom coping” effectiveness are associated with differences in employee well...
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Managing homeworking: health and safety responsibilities
This paper reports on a study of companies using homeworkers, carried out to gather information regarding the employment status of homeworkers and the health and safety provision afforded to homewo...
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Self‐regulation and Health and Safety
Self‐regulation of health and safety within a legal framework was recommended by the Robens Committee Report (1972). Every organisation will be affected by various factors, both internal and extern...
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Employee representation and health and safety. A strategy for improving health and safety performance in small enterprises?
Considers the role of employee representation in improving health and safety performance within small enterprises. Focuses on an approach to employee participation through regional health and safet...
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A New Health and Safety Service for Industry
Management has both a moral and a legal duty to ensure the health and safety of all its employees and others present in the company's premises. These commitments should not be regarded purely as ye...
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How Real is Worker Involvement in Health and Safety?
The Robens committee on Safety and Health at Work recognised the cardinal importance of worker co‐operation with management if workplaces were to be made safer places and believed that worker invol...
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Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of the big data technologies for health and safety risks analytics in the power infrastructure domain with large data sets of health and s...
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Integrating Management Systems and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation
‘Best practice’ in occupational health and safety (OHS) performance needs to recognize the declining emphasis that is being placed on the capacity of the regulatory state. This article argues that ...
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Role typology for health and safety representatives
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of a health and safety (HS) representative role typology that demonstrates how representatives enact their roles and improve occupa...
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