Representing workers on occupational safety and health: some lessons from a largely ignored history
Walters, David ; Quinlan, Michael
2019
50
4
July
399-414
occupational safety and health ; workers representation ; coal mining ; history
Western Europe ; North America ; Australia
Occupational safety and health
https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12268
English
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"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."
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