| Abstract: | Peter Kidger, Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the new Salford Management School, considers whether the offshore health and safety system, under which employees have the statutory right to elect safety representatives irrespective of union membership, could serve as a model for an elective system applicable in all workplaces. He reviews the conditions necessary for representation to be effective, the arguments for restricting representation to union appointments, and some of the criticisms of the 1977 SRSC Regulations. He concludes that there is a case for having safety representatives in all workplaces, but draws attention to enforcement and implementation problems which an elective system would face. |
