@article{ref1,
title="Local Agreements as an Instrument for Improvement of Management—Employee Collaboration on Occupational Health and Safety",
journal="Economic and industrial democracy",
year="2009",
author="Sørensen, OH and Hasle, Peter and Navrbjerg, Steen E.",
volume="30",
number="4",
pages="643-672",
abstract="Employee participation is crucial to safe and secure workplace environments. Health and safety regulation or voluntary agreements form two different approaches to this. In Denmark, a legislative change facilitates combining the two approaches. The new flexibility of approach enables the organization of health and safety to be tailored to the needs of the workplace based on a local agreement negotiated between management and local union representatives. This new approach is explored in this article. The study finds that the system has a positive impact on employee participation, improves collaborative relations, strengthens local commitment and there is a perceived increase in organizational efficiency and flexibility; all factors that have been shown to increase safety performance.<p />",
language="",
issn="0143-831X",
doi="10.1177/0143831X09343993",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X09343993"
}