TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Managing OHS: A route to a new negotiating order in high-performance work organizations?
JO  - Safety science
A1  - Kristensen, Peer Hull
SP  - 964
EP  - 973
VL  - 49
IS  - 7
N2  - Contrary to a widely held view, rather than seeing the certification of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) as a barrier to increasing employee participation, this article views new ways of structuring participation as a necessary step towards making improvements in OHS management systems. The article first considers how work organization has changed and then in a similar way traces how bargaining has shifted from being distributive to become integrative to create a fundamental change in the negotiation regime. Finally, by analyzing an OHS-certified firm in greater depth, the article shows how solutions for improvements in OHS management and notable bottom-up formulations of OHS benchmarks may help us discover how the organizational form of firms with high-performance work organization can be developed through new participatory structures.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0925-7535
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2011.02.001
ID  - ref1
ER  -