Over the past 20 years there has been a significant refashioning of the labour market within
Australia and other industrialised countries. This paper examines the implications of the …

Worker participation in occupational health and safety (OHS) generally achieves better
outcomes than unilateral management initiatives. But in acold'industrial relations climate …

Currently, an estimated two million men and women die each die each year as a result of
occupational accidents and work-related illnesses or injuries1. There also are some 268 …

Purpose–The purpose of this research is to analyse the problems for occupational health
and safety (OHS) regulators posed by agency work/leased labour (also known as labour …

The research examined the history of representation on occupational health and safety
(OSH) and the nature, operation and contexts of present-day arrangements for worker …

Changing work arrangements are increasingly being recognized by governments,
researchers, professionals, industry and unions as one of the most (if not the most) …

The origin of this book is the compelling evidence that a high proportion of machinery-
related deaths and injuries are attributable to genuine and serious risks originating within …

It is a truism to say that work has potential implications, both positive and negative, for the
physical and mental well-being of those who undertake it. It is similarly clear that there is …

Executive summary The aim of this study was to undertake a more detailed analysis of data
from the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER) …

AbstrAct Some elected Health and Safety Representatives in Australia choose to undertake
a Certificate IV level OHS course. To determine if they are more effective at representing …