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- Title
Adjusting labour inspection to contemporary occupational safety and health system.
- Authors
Stojšić, Ljiljana
- Abstract
Numerous changes in economic, political, social, cultural and other fields marked the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. These changes have also given rise to: modified employment structure, new organizational forms of economic activities, new risks, expansion of flexible working engagement patterns, increase in the underground economy, new types of discrimination and abuse related to work, which inevitably influenced the roles of all participants acting in the labour sphere: employers, employees, their associations, labour inspection and others. Each of these participants, in order to continue their performance, needs to adjust their role to the newly emerged circumstances, making necessary changes and finding more effective instruments for influencing other participants in order to fulfill their role, or leave the role. Labour inspection, as well as other administrative mechanisms, is often not flexible or sensitive enough to notice developments that decrease its efficiency in a timely manner, but is prone to inertia since it follows the traditional principles of its establishment. However, the changes which have affected the field of labour also have a strong influence over the system of labour inspection, although it might not always be aware of such influence. This is why, in this paper, we will point to some of the most significant social, economic and organizational changes that represent a challenge to labour inspection today, since it has to understand its role and adjust its activities to newly emerged circumstances. We would also suggest some possibilities of developing this system so that it could adapt to the modern concept of occupational safety and health.
- Subjects
LABOR inspection; INDUSTRIAL safety; SOCIAL change
- Publication
Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management, 2014, Vol 2, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2325-4688
- Publication type
Article