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Old Lessons For New Governance: Safety Or Profit And The New Conventional Wisdom, Eric Tucker
Old Lessons For New Governance: Safety Or Profit And The New Conventional Wisdom, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
New governance theory has a large following in academia and is exerting an influence in numerous spheres of regulatory policy. Yet in the area of occupational health and safety, new governance is hardly new at all. Indeed, it is fair to say that it in many ways what are now labelled new governance concepts were first articulated and applied in the 1972 Robens Report, Safety and Health at Work. This included its critique of command and control legislation and its emphasis on the need to develop better self-regulation. This paper critically examines new governance models in OHS regulation. In the …
Giving Voice To The Precariously Employed? Mapping And Exploring Channels Of Worker Voice In Occupational Health And Safety Regulation, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
In most contemporary occupational health and safety (OHS) regimes, great emphasis is placed on amplifying worker voice in regulation through worker health and safety representation in the employers’ OHS management system. Historically, these regimes were designed on the assumption that the workers who would use these mechanisms were full-time workers having secure jobs with their current employers. This is manifestly no longer true, posing a serious challenge to the efficacy of these regimes. After setting out the historical context of worker voice in OHS regulation, this paper begins by mapping out eight channels of worker voice based on the combination …