The Role of Research in OSH Smith, James D
Professional safety,
12/2017, Letnik:
62, Številka:
12
Journal Article
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To further understand the information needs of our members, in August, we conducted a survey to help identify safety challenges, barriers and obstacles that members encounter in their workplaces and ...to identify gaps in information that we need filled to better perform our jobs. When asked what topics present the greatest challenges, the top answers from the survey will ring true for most of us: *human organizational performance and safety culture; *risk management/assessment; *leading indicators; *changing workforce demographics; *health and wellness. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi James D. Smith, M.S., CSP @ASSEPrez Research will help us fill gaps in our body of knowledge, which will enable us to convince more employers to implement safety and health management programs.
Focusing on employers’ organizations in the United Kingdom, this article contributes to the literature on employer interest representation by advancing three interrelated arguments, which reflect how ...the methods, structure and interests of employer representation have evolved. First, the primary method of collective interest representation has shifted from collective bargaining, nowadays only pursued by a minority of employers’ organizations, to political representation, now the most frequent form of collective interest representation. Second, the structure of employer interest representation has evolved and is fragmented between a small number of large, general employers’ organizations, a large majority of sectoral employers’ organizations, regional interest representation in the devolved nations, which has become more important, and a new type of employer body, the employer forum, which focuses on corporate social responsibility. Third, the shift in collective interest representation is complemented by a broadening of individual interest representation, with employers’ organizations having developed a wide range of services.
The economic and political stresses of the First World War and its immediate aftermath strengthened the associational culture in British business. This article focuses on the Federation of British ...Industries, established in 1916 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1923, which quickly became one of the largest trade associations in the world, with global connections. For British business, workers and government, the years following the end of the First World War presented some of the most difficult challenges of the twentieth century. The article discusses a number of areas such as the influence of corporatism; fear of renewed German economic competition; British participation at overseas trade fairs; business and reparations; the relations between business, Members of Parliament and government; and the uniquely wide range of services the Federation provided to help its members regain lost markets and compete in the post-war world.
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