Historically, worker movements have played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better health standards. According to our interpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases the average health of workers and thereby the aggregate labour supply. A...

We analyse a world consisting of 'the North' and 'the South' where labour standards in the North are set by trade unions. Standards set by unions tend to increase output and welfare. There are no unions in the South and work standards are suboptimal. Trade between these two countries can imply a...

In the health, safety, and environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that...

Abstract Untersuchungen zur Wirtschaftlichkeit der betrieblichen Prävention erfahren zunehmendes Interesse. Einerseits soll Unternehmen gezeigt werden, dass sich Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement rechnet. Andererseits sollen die durch Prävention vermeidbaren Kosten abgeschätzt und ggf. die...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Risk management is a widely used term meaning different things to people in different economic sectors. To some, it refers to auditing and, to others, it means Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), compliance or any risk management activity dominant in the user’s frame of...

Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare...

This paper is reviews accident causation, prevention and occupational health and safety (OHS) management as an opportunity for improving organisational performance. A theoretical framework based on a periodization scheme is introduced first. This is then used to examine theoretical and practical...

Die gegenwärtige Arbeitswelt ist gezeichnet von Digitalisierungsprozessen, welche sukzessive in allen Bereichen der Erwerbsarbeit wirksam werden. Der Großteil der damit im Zusammenhang stehenden arbeitsorganisatorischen Veränderungen bleibt in seinen Wirkungen ambivalent und bietet immer auch...