The aim of this paper is to review the role that representative worker participation can play in contributing to better health and safety performance in small enterprises. The relevance of representative participation to health and safety in small enterprises is addressed and the challenges that...

1. Introduction -- 2. Risk-based governance and analytical framework -- 3. Diffusion of the risk management model in the U.S. coal mining industry -- 4. Barriers to modeling the risk management approach in the American coal mining industry -- 5. Modeling risk-based system regulation in Australia...