South African mineworkers' perspectives on the right to refuse dangerous work and the constraints to worker self-regulation
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This article is published in Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.The article was published on 2019-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work (electrical).read more
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How does informal employment affect health and health equity? Emerging gaps in research from a scoping review and modified e-Delphi survey
Juyeon Lee,Erica Di Ruggiero +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors report on the results from a scoping review and a modified e-Delphi survey with experts which aimed to synthesize existing knowledge and identify research gaps on the health and health equity implications of informal employment in both low and middle income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs).
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How worker health and safety representatives are captured and outdone by production on South African mines
TL;DR: In South Africa, post-apartheid, under the Mine Health and Safety Act No. 29 of 1996, workers elect health and safety representatives (HSRs).
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The Impact of the Direct Participation of Workers on the Rates of Absenteeism in the Spanish Labor Environment.
TL;DR: The results obtained showed how the active-delegative participation of workers in the design and adoption of psychosocial risk prevention measures reported 2.33 less probabilities of having a very high or fairly high level of absenteeism, which shows that the authors can fall into an unrealistic institutional mirage of security with active policies of co-education or co-management being necessary to reduce absenteeism.
The Right to Refuse Dangerous Work
TL;DR: Turner as discussed by the authors argued that the general rule is obedience, and wilful disobedience is a sufficient ground of dismissal, even when the servant apprehends danger to her life or violence to her person from the master.
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Worker health and safety representatives on South African mines: A compassionate voice in the face of employer dominance and health complexity
TL;DR: HSRs in middle-income countries take on a meaningfully different role to their counterparts in highly industrialised nations, and this has implications for both regulatory policy and trade union strategy.
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The Responsibilization Strategy of Health and Safety: Neo-liberalism and the Reconfiguration of Individual Responsibility for Risk
TL;DR: Workplace safety is undergoing a process of responsibilization as mentioned in this paper, where workers are increasingly assigned greater responsibility for their own safety at work and are held accountable, judged, and sanctioned through this lens.
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Occupational health and safety in mining - status, new developments, and concerns
TL;DR: Efforts to improve OHS and to respond to changes in the sector are constrained by a lack of training and consistency in risk management, guidance for junior, small and artisanal miners, and holistic approaches to risk.
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Organizational Trust and the Limits of Management-Based Regulation
Neil Gunningham,Darren Sinclair +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between management-based regulation and occupational health and safety through two case studies, and argue that despite the heavy emphasis currently being placed on both internal (company-driven) and external (government-driven management based regulation, a commitment at corporate level does not necessarily percolate down to individual facilities where ritualistic responses or resistant subcultures may thwart effective change.
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Globalization and occupational health: a perspective from southern Africa.
TL;DR: In order to reduce the adverse effects of global trade reforms on occupational health, stronger social protection measures must be built into production and trade activities, including improved recognition, prevention, and management of work-related ill-health.
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Occupational Health and Safety, Worker Participation and the Mining Industry in a Changing World of Work
TL;DR: Worker participation in occupational health and safety (OHS) generally achieves better outcomes than unilateral management initiatives as discussed by the authors. But in a ''cold'' industrial relations climate, meaningful participation is increasingly difficult.