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Managing work health and safety : recent developments and future directions

journal contribution
posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by C Gallagher, Elsa UnderhillElsa Underhill
Effective management of occupational health and safety ( OHS) continues to pose a challenge to many organisations. While significant advancement has occurred in knowledge about traditional workplace risks, organisational and labour market changes have created new risks, psychosocial risks are more prevalent, and the trend towards the adoption of OHS management systems has produced only mixed results. These issues are the focus of this review of recent developments in workplace health and safety. We argue there is a need for organisations to refocus systematically on a collaborative approach to identifying and controlling workplace risks, and on improving the integration of OHS into broader systems and every day management to better meet existing and future OHS challenges.

History

Journal

Asia pacific journal of human resources

Volume

50

Pagination

227 - 244

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Location

London, England

ISSN

1038-4111

eISSN

1744-7941

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Australian Human Resources Institute