Health and Safety in a Changing World

When health and safety regulatory frameworks took their present form in the 1970s, they were seen as a triumph of welfare state intervention. Since then, as heavy industry has declined and office and retail employment have expanded, new ways of working have radically altered the context of health and safety policy. Many people have come to see health and safety interventions as an obstacle to innovation.

This book aims to address the changing context of health and safety policy, exploring concerns arising within the profession and the appropriate responses. Its manifesto for reform promises to frame the debate within the professional and policy community for a generation.

The result of a major research programme funded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), Health and Safety in a Changing World shows how health and safety policy has developed over time, how it is applied in practice and how best to make it fit-for-purpose in the 21st century. The book will be essential reading for professionals, practitioners and academic readers with an interest in the rapidly-evolving field of health and safety.

Introduction

ROBERT DINGWALL AND SHELLEY FROST

1 Do the public have a problem with health and safety?

MIKE ESBESTER AND PAUL ALMOND

2 The changing landscape of occupational safety and health policy in the UK

STAVROULA LEKA, ADITYA JAIN, GERARD ZWETSLOOT, NICHOLAS ANDREOU AND DAVID HOLLIS

3 The use of knowledge in occupational safety and health: from knowledge creation to employee use

JOANNE O. CRAWFORD, ALICE DAVIS, GUY H. WALKER, HILARY COWIE AND PETER J. RITCHIE

4 Health and safety knowledge in networked organisations

PHIL BUST, ALISTAIR GIBB, ANDY DAINTY, ALISTAIR CHEYNE, RUTH HARTLEY, JANE GLOVER, AOIFE FINNERAN, ROGER HASLAM AND PATRICK WATERSON

5 Engagement of smaller organisations in occupational safety and health

JAMES PINDER, ALISTAIR GIBB, ANDY DAINTY, WENDY JONES, MIKE FRAY, RUTH HARTLEY, ALISTAIR CHEYNE, AOIFE FINNERAN, JANE GLOVER, ROGER HASLAM, JENNIE MORGAN, SARAH PINK, PATRICK WATERSON, ELAINE YOLANDE GOSLING AND PHIL BUST

6 Safety leadership: fashion, function, future

COLIN PILBEAM, NOELEEN DOHERTY AND DAVID DENYER

Conclusion: stepping up to the challenge

SHELLEY FROST AND ROBERT DINGWALL

Robert Dingwall was Director of the Research Programme at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

Shelley Frost is the Executive Director for Policy at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).