Worker participation practices : a review of EU-OSHA case studies ; literature review

The European Agency for safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) publishes studies of goof practices to prevent workplace risks in a series of reports on different topics. The cases are analysed for success factors, and effective worker participation is consistently shown to be a basic requierement for the successful identification of problems and implementation of practical solutions, regardless of the size or the type of workplace or type of problem. Many of the cases include description of how the worker participation has taken place in practice and its role and its place in introducing successful prevention measures. It was therefore decided to revisit these good practice case descriptions and make a compilation of the worker participation components, to provide an overview of how worker participation featured in the various cases and show the types of approaches and methods that were used in practice.