Department of Public Management Masters in Safe Environment at Work Enhancing the Human Resource: Em

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Department of Public ManagementMasters in
Safe Environment at WorkEnhancing the Human
Resource Employee WellBeing at the Workplace -
An Interdisciplinary Approach.

• Course Leaders
• Charles Woolfson and Remigijus Jankauskas

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Brief Profile of Charles Woolfson

• Professor of Labour Studies, School of Law,
  University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Member of Glasgow Baltic Research Unit
• Former Marie Curie Research Fellowship, Lithuania
• Director of European Centre for Occupational
  Health, Safety and Environment (ECOHSE)
• Member of Centre for Corporate Accountability
  (UK)
• Email woolfson_at_eurofaculty.lv

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The Marie Curie chair

• Forty awards of chairs by European Commission
  2002-2006
• Covering social and natural sciences at a
  European level (including New Member states)
• A researcher wishing to carry out transnational
  mobility
• The chair holder shall be a world-class
  researcher of any nationality, with outstanding
  past achievements in international collaborative
  research.

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Marie Curie chair duties

• Chair award is normally for three years.
• Subjects to be taught - of a leading edge
  and/or multi-disciplinary nature.
• Correspond to directions in research relevant
  for Europe.
• Chair teaches research courses to graduate and/or
  postgraduate students.
• Chair carries out research and supervises
  research and thesis work.

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Employee Well-being at the Workplace

• Most adults spend most of their lives in some
  sort of work environment.
• What happens at work, links to every aspect of
  peoples lives family relationships,
  opportunities and barriers to self-development.
• Too often work is a negative and de-grading
  experience, rather than a means of personal
  fulfilment.
• Valuing the human resource - means employees
  are not seen merely as objects
• The notion of well-being implies not just an
  absence of sickness or injury, but a positive and
  active state of being.

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Course aims

• To provide participants with an understanding of
  a range of contemporary occupational health and
  safety debates and key issues at national and
  European level.
• To equip participants with a range of techniques
  for identifying and resolving employee health and
  wellbeing issues in their organisation.

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An interdisciplinary approach?

• The working environment is a mirror of the
  society (or perhaps a window - allowing us to
  see things (hazards) that might otherwise be
  hidden from view?)
• To understand the hidden and not-so-hidden
  hazards of work properly, we need to see the
  working environment as the intersection of a
  number of different academic and practical/
  technical disciplines.
• This means we need to see the working environment
  as requiring multi-dimensional approaches
  economics, law, politics, industrial relations,
  risk management.

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Economics

• In the EU 15 about 210 million days are lost due
  to work-related accidents
• Accounts for between 2.8 and 3.6 of member
  states GDP.
• In 2001 there were about 4.7 million accidents
  resulting in more than 3 days of absence from
  work.
• Put another way, about 4 of European workers
  were victims of an accident at work during that
  year, and of these about 4900 injuries were
  fatal.
• One European Union worker becomes a victim of an
  accident at work every 5 seconds and one worker
  dies every two hours because of an accident at
  work.

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• There are some indications of a modest
  improvement in injury rates in the existing EU 15
  member states over time.
• This improvement is not mirrored in the data for
  the new member states of Central and Eastern
  Europe.
• An issue of quality in the labour force, of
  efficiency and productivity (the Lisbon agenda of
  the European Union)
• Also the need to prevent distortion of
  competition (through unfair price competition by
  cost-cutting on safety and health).

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Law

• How does the state regulate the safety and health
  of employees in the workplace? Architecture of
  the law?
• What is the role of international bodies such as
  the European Union in setting legal standards?
• What are the agencies of enforcement and how
  effective are they?
• What are the legal incentives to compliance with
  the law?
• At what point does violation of law become a
  criminal as against simply and administrative
  issue?
• What are the penalties and legal costs? What is
  the compensation available for individuals?

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Politics

• What is the attitude of governments and political
  towards issues of working environment in the
  context of European enlargement?
• Is there a difference between how the issues are
  viewed in the new member states (compared to the
  older members of the EU)?
• How far do political parties see the need to have
  clear policies in this area?
• What is the role of employers organisations,
  free market institutes or think tanks and other
  anti-regulation forces?

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Industrial Relations/Management Studies

• What voice do employees have in determining the
  conditions under which they have to work?
• What are managements attitudes to employees
  having a say in their conditions?
• What role is there for trade unions, or for other
  forms of worker representatives in the management
  of safety and health at work?
• Is employee input helpful or an obstacle?
• Is health and safety something that employers and
  employees can always agree about?
• What happens when they do not agree?

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Occupational medicine/ Industrial hygiene/risk
management

• What are the most effective means of managing
  ongoing physical, chemical, biological risks in
  the workplace?
• What systems of monitoring and remedial
  intervention need to be put in place? Company
  doctors, medical surveillance, occupational
  health services, rehabilitation facilities.
• How do we prevent catastrophic organisational
  safety and health failures eg. Multi-fatality
  incidents, stress, burn-out, bullying ie
  psycho-social issues/ gender

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• Article 48(1) Every person may freely choose an
  occupation or business, and shall have the right
  to adequate, safe and healthy working conditions,
  adequate compensation for work, and social
  security in the event of unemployment.
• CONSTITUTIONOF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
•  (Approved by the citizens of the Republic of
  Lithuania
• in the Referendum on 25 October 1992)
• (as amended by 20 March 2003, No. IX-1379)

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Health and Safety in European law

• Article 118A of the Treaty of Rome (incorporated
  as Article 137 of the Amsterdam Treaty- the
  Commission with the Member States will develop
  clearly defined policy on prevention of
  occupational accidents and diseases.

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Key European Directives

• Key instrument Framework Directive 89/391/EEC
  which contains basic provisions regarding the
  organisation of health and safety at work and the
  responsibilities of employers and workers.
  Subsequent legislation protects workers form
  risks related to exposure to chemical, physical
  and biological agents at work with specific
  directives on harmful substances such as
  asbestos.
• Directive on the organisation of working time
  (93/104/EC), plus further Working conditions
  measures regarding protection of pregnant women,
  young people at work and the posting of workers.

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Fatalities at Work 2001-2002
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Course learning outcomes

• At the end of the course participants should-
• Understand some of the key strategy debates,
  legislative frameworks and their application in
  occupational health and safety in a European
  context.
• Understand the links between employee health and
  wellbeing, employee relations and human resource
  management in securing a competitive business
  environment.
• Be familiar with the latest developments in
  occupational health and safety and examples of
  best practice at a national and international
  level.
• Be aware of the steps and techniques involved in
  ensuring the successful management of employee
  health and wellbeing in the workplace including
  the role of employees in this process.
• Be in a position to assess a range of key
  employee health and wellbeing issues and the
  appropriateness of specific techniques to their
  particular organisation at workplace level.

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Courses Structure

• 8 Lectures of 1.5 hours over 8 weeks
• 7 Seminars comprising
• Video documentary programmes
• Student-led presentations
• Student group discussions
• Guest speakers
• Student assignment and assessment to be explained
  by Remigijus Jankauskas

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Course Content

• Sept 9 Presentation of Course design and
  evaluation (CW and RJ)
• Sept 16 The European Social Model and
  Occupational Health and Safety Strategy (CW)
• Sept 23 Social dialogue and industrial relations
  the context for OHS (CW)
• Sept 30 Occupational Health and Safety system
  and indicators (RJ)

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Course Content

• Oct 7 Occupational Health and Safety legal
  regulation (RJ and CW)
• Oct 14 Occupational stress and psychosocial
  stressors at work (RJ)
• Oct 21 Corporate social responsibility,
  industrial disasters and worst practice (CW)
• Oct 28 Occupational health in EU Countries and
  Lithuania seeking best practice (RJ)

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Accessing Student Resources

• Web http//www.eurofaculty.lv/MarieCurie

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