Issue:
A body of qualitative research examines topics such as how safety inspectors conduct their work, how decisions are made about enforcement, how legislation about OHS hazards is interpreted by inspectors and among workplace parties, and the intersection between industrial relation and new regulatory foci such as bullying and harassment. This project will undertake a joint and complementary qualitative and quantitative systematic review process, with shared literature search, a separate data analysis process, and regular meetings to discuss synergy.
Objectives:
• To identify international English-language qualitative literature on conditions for occupational health and safety regulation effectiveness.
• To identify high quality articles and synthesize using the meta-ethnography method.
• To identify social, economic and other conditions that shape the OHS regulation process and consider the nature of this interaction.
Anticipated Results:
To our knowledge, no review of qualitative literature has yet been done of this topic. As such, this study will provide novel summary findings about OHS regulatory process, conditions and mechanisms. These results will be of considerable interest to MOL policy-makers and operational managers as they design and implement their own OHS regulatory systems. The results will also interest worker advocacy group and labour, whose constituents are the party to most benefit from optimal OHS regulatory processes.
Investigators:
Ellen MacEachen, Christine Carrasco, Emile Tompa, Agnieszka Kosny, Christian Stahl
