Health and Safety Reps in COVID-19-Representation Unleashed?
Health and Safety Reps in COVID-19-Representation Unleashed?
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DOI：
10.3390/ijerph20085551
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发表时间：
2023-04-18
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Flynn, Matt
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作者：
Moore, Sian;Cai, Minjie;Ball, Chris;Flynn, Matt
本文探讨了英国工会健康与安全代表的作用，以及新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 期间管理工作场所和组织职业健康与安全 (OHS) 的代表结构的变化。它借鉴了对 648 名英国工会大会 (TUC) 健康与安全 (H&S) 代表的调查，以及对 8 个关键领域 12 个组织的案例研究。调查显示，工会健康与安全代表人数有所增加，但只有一半的受访者表示其组织中设有健康与安全委员会。在存在正式代表机制的地方，它们为管理层和工会之间更非正式的日常接触提供了基础。然而，本研究表明，放松管制的遗留问题和组织基础设施的缺乏意味着工人在职业健康安全方面的利益的自主集体代表，独立于结构，对于风险预防至关重要。尽管在某些工作场所可以对职业健康安全进行联合监管和参与，但疫情期间的职业健康安全一直存在争议。争议对 COVID-19 之前的学术研究提出了挑战，表明 H&S 代表在一元主义实践的背景下被管理层俘获。工会权力与更广泛的法律基础设施之间的紧张关系仍然突出。
The paper explores the role of UK union health and safety representatives and changes to representative structures governing workplace and organisational Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) during COVID-19. It draws upon a survey of 648 UK Trade Union Congress (TUC) Health and Safety (H&S) representatives, as well as case studies of 12 organisations in eight key sectors. The survey indicates expanded union H&S representation, but only half of the respondents reported H&S committees in their organisations. Where formal representative mechanisms existed, they provided the basis for more informal day-to-day engagement between management and the union. However, the present study suggests that the legacy of deregulation and the absence of organisational infrastructures meant that the autonomous collective representation of workers’ interests over OHS, independent of structures, was crucial to risk prevention. While joint regulation and engagement over OHS was possible in some workplaces, OHS in the pandemic has been contested. Contestation challenges pre-COVID-19 scholarship suggestingthat H&S representatives had been captured by management in the context of unitarist practice. The tension between union power and the wider legal infrastructure remains salient.