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Peer Hull Kristensen publishes an article in Safety Science

15.06.2011

Managing OHS: A route to a new negotiating order in high-performance

work organizations?

 

Safety Science

Contrary to a widely held view, rather than seeing the certification of Occupational Health and Safety
(OHS) as a barrier to increasing employee participation, this article views new ways of structuring participation
as a necessary step towards making improvements in OHS management systems. The article
first considers how work organization has changed and then in a similar way traces how bargaining
has shifted from being distributive to become integrative to create a fundamental change in the negotiation
regime. Finally, by analyzing an OHS-certified firm in greater depth, the article shows how solutions
for improvements in OHS management and notable bottom-up formulations of OHS benchmarks may
help us discover how the organizational form of firms with high-performance work organization can
be developed through new participatory structures.
 
Peer Hull Kristensen: Managing OHS: A route to a new negotiating order in high-performance
work organizations? In Safety Science, vol 49, issue 7, Elsevier Publisher, august 2011. doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2011.02.001





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