Toward Meaningful Protection of Worker Health and Safety

Worker Safety and Health : The Swedish Difference

In this book, Steven Kelman of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government compares the behavior of two government agencies with similar missions: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the United States and the Arbetarskyddsverket or Worker Protection Board in Sweden. As James Q. Wilson notes in a preface, Kelman emerges with a paradox: in "[t]he United States, that pre-eminent commer...

"Diverging Trends in Worker Health and Safety Protection and Participation in Canada, 1985-2000"

Relative effectiveness of worker safety and health training methods.

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the relative effectiveness of different methods of worker safety and health training aimed at improving safety knowledge and performance and reducing negative outcomes (accidents, illnesses, and injuries). METHODS Ninety-five quasi-experimental studies (n=20991) were included in the analysis. Three types of intervention methods were distinguished on the basis...

Remapping worker citizenship in contemporary occupational health and safety regimes.

The article draws on the rapidly growing field of citizenship studies to map and explore the dynamics of contemporary occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation. Using two key dimensions of OHS regulation (protection and participation), the author constructs four ideal types of worker citizenship (market, public, private industrial, and public industrial citizens). Historically, workers ha...

Agricultural health and safety: incorporating the worker perspective.

This commentary offers a worker's perspective on agricultural health and safety and describes (1) the historical exemption of agriculture from regulatory oversight and barriers encountered due to lack of regulations and poor enforcement of the existing standards; (2) the effect of immigration status on worker protections; and (3) the basic desire for economic survival and how this impacts worke...