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Managing Health, Safety, and Well-Being at Work Within Changing Legal and Policy Frameworks

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Handbook on Management and Employment Practices

Part of the book series: Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences ((HDBSOHS,volume 3))

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The aim of this chapter is to present key policy approaches to managing health, safety, and well-being at the macrolevel (international, regional, national), mesolevel (sectoral), and microlevel (organizational). We will first begin by defining key concepts before proceeding to explain hard and soft law and the evolution of policy in occupational health and safety. We will then present examples of both these types of approaches at various levels. Recent integrated approaches will also be discussed. We will conclude by considering advantages and disadvantages of these various policy approaches and the need of finding balance in policy and practice.

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  1. Cork University Business School, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Stavroula Leka

  2. Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Aditya Jain

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  1. Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Paula Brough

  2. School of Management QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Elliroma Gardiner

  3. Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Kevin Daniels

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  1. School of Management, QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Elliroma Gardiner

  2. School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Paula Brough PhD

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Leka, S., Jain, A. (2022). Managing Health, Safety, and Well-Being at Work Within Changing Legal and Policy Frameworks. In: Brough, P., Gardiner, E., Daniels, K. (eds) Handbook on Management and Employment Practices. Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29010-8_34

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