unions have been prevented from significantly affecting the safety representative system in the UK offshore oil and gas … industry. It is shown how representative training in particular prevents unions influencing the definition of the … performance which is oriented to the goals of safety management.  …

government was the introduction of new offshore regulations with a required need for safety meetings and elected safety … interest in offshore safety. Concludes Norway’s amended offshore oil and gas regulations of 1998 placed heavy emphasis on …

arrangements. The utility of the framework was assessed using organisational safety cultures within three organisational settings …

Considers the role of employee representation in improving health and safety performance within small enterprises …. Focuses on an approach to employee participation through regional health and safety representatives and provides an analysis … schemes. Identifies and discusses supportive factors that might enhance representative participation in health and safety in …

This paper reports an employee‐management consensus approach for identifying safety initiatives that are both … to safety issues affecting the division’s tanker drivers. The study used an employee questionnaire to assess drivers …’ perceptions of safety management, workplace conditions and safety concerns. Factor analysis and structural equation modelling were …

Self‐regulation of health and safety within a legal framework was recommended by the Robens Committee Report (1972 …‐regulation of health and safety will evolve, and these factors will also influence the effectiveness of joint self‐regulation by … and safety in a Scottish local authority are focused on mainly, while, at the same time, some of the external factors are …

While HRM has stimulated studies assessing the extent of UK training, there has been little sustained research into … service, attendant approaches to build credibility with line management locks training into a subservient position. Likewise …, while shared threats can close some of the status gap between training and line management, alliance tactics are …

cultures”, the recruitment and selection procedures, and the training and development practices considered necessary to develop … place sophisticated, objective recruitment and selection methods in order to achieve this, and have structured training and … strong evidence of relatively sophisticated training and development systems congruent with an HRM approach. Concludes that …