Local agreements as an instrument for improvement of management-employee collaboration on occupational health and safety

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 643-672

  Sørensen, Ole H ^a   Hasle, Peter ^a   Navrbjerg, Steen E ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Codetermination; Employee participation; Health and safety work; Industrial relations; Partnership

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350454865     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09343993     Document Type: Article

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