Richard Johnstone

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that Occupational Health and Safety management systems have the potential to stimulate models of self-organisation within firms in such a way as to make them self-reflective and to encourage informal self-critical reflection about their occupational health and safety performance.

TL;DR: A number of changes are required that recognize the distinctiveness of psychosocial hazards including their ‘invisibility’ including revisions to regulation, the development of comprehensive guidance and assessment tools to be used by inspectors, greater use of procedural enforcement, and enhanced inspectorate resourcing and training.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the adverse implications of the externalisation of production and service delivery on the health and safety of workers, and examine the extent to which current British health-safety law provides an adequate framework for addressing these outcomes and explore whether its capacity to do so could be enhanced through the introduction of new statutory provisions on the regulation of supply chains.

TL;DR: The authors examines the implications of the growth of more flexible work arrangements for mechanisms designed to facilitate worker involvement in occupational health and safety at the workplace, and examines a number of ways of remedying these deficiencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the adverse implications of the externalisation of production and service delivery on the health and safety of workers, and examine the extent to which current British health-safety law provides an adequate framework for addressing these outcomes and explore whether its capacity to do so could be enhanced through the introduction of new statutory provisions on the regulation of supply chains.