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Rethinking America's Approach To Workplace Safety: A Model For Advancing Safety Issues In The Chemical Industry, Gwen Forte
Cleveland State Law Review
In Part II of this note, I analyze the impact of tort litigation, workers' compensation, collective bargaining, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act on workplace safety. I begin by describing how each of these vehicles operated historically and then I provide a contemporary perspective. In this section, I also consider the advantages and disadvantages of using these approaches to prevent and compensate for injuries. In Part III, I propose an alternative approach to workplace safety: employee board representation. In this section, I analyze and critique various methods of employee board representation and ultimately recommend a form of representation in …