Prevention services for occupational safety and health in the European Union: Anachronisms or supports for better practice?

Walters, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1938, Johnstone, Richard, Bluff, Elizabeth, Limborg, Hans Jørgen and Gensby, Ulrik 2022. Prevention services for occupational safety and health in the European Union: Anachronisms or supports for better practice? Safety Science 152 , 105793. 10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105793

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Abstract

This paper reviews recent literature on prevention services for occupational safety and health (OSH) in the changing world of work found in the Member States of the European Union. Based on the findings of a wider review of the literature on support for securing compliance on OSH undertaken for EU-OSHA, it defines what is understood by ‘prevention services’, identifies various historical and current approaches to their operation and explores the regulatory and policy contexts in which they function in the EU. The review identifies a number of serious concerns about the coverage of these services, and their contribution to supporting prevention practice. It finds their marketisation in recent decades has contributed little to their development in these respects. The paper discusses the challenges confronting their future of role in support for good practice in OSH and concludes with a number of questions for policy and future research.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0925-7535
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 July 2022
Date of Acceptance:	14 April 2022
Last Modified:	12 May 2023 06:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150966

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