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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the functional legitimacy of health and safety—how it derives acceptance from the ways in which it operates in practice, and the outcomes that it produces. The expansion of health and safety beyond the workplace, the emergence of a safety profession and the valorisation of expertise, and the inspection and enforcement practices of regulators, are all explored in relation to the challenges and benefits that they provide in terms of demonstrating the effectiveness, efficiency, and expertise of those who ‘do’ health and safety. The chapter argues that the common theme here is that of redrawing the balance of who is responsible for health and safety—something that can be heavily contested, become blurred, and be subject to external political pressures.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Such as the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the British Safety Council, the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IISRM), and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

  2. 2.

    Such as the annual Safety and Health Expo (https://www.safety-health-expo.co.uk/), the IOSH Annual Conference (https://www.iosh.co.uk/Key-IOSH-events/IOSH-2018.aspx), and the British Safety Council’s International Safety Awards (https://www.britsafe.org/awards-and-events/isa2018/).

  3. 3.

    Such as Health and Safety at Work (https://www.healthandsafetyatwork.com/), Safety and Health Practitioner (https://www.shponline.co.uk/), and Safety Management (https://www.britsafe.org/publications/safety-management-magazine/safety-management-magazine/).

  4. 4.

    Interviewed for BBC TV programme ‘Red Alert’, aired on 5 July 1977. BBC Written Archives, Caversham.

  5. 5.

    B. England, “Discussion”, Work Hazards 21 (c. 1979), p. 18. Samuel Barr Collection, Glasgow Caledonian University [GCU] DC 140/2/1/2.

  6. 6.

    The Working of the HSC and E (1981/82 HC-400iii), Minutes of Evidence 23 June 1982, p. 25.

  7. 7.

    R. Williams, ‘A Key Issue’, Work Hazards 21 (c. 1979), p. 3. Samuel Barr Collection, GCU DC 140/2/1/2.

  8. 8.

    R. Barry, ‘Accident Prevention in the Iron and Steel Industry’, talk to the Central Metropolitan Group, London Industrial Accident Prevention Committee, 13 March 1967, noted in the minutes of the meeting, p. 3. MRC, MSS.292B/146/2/4.

  9. 9.

    Verbal evidence on behalf of RoSPA to the Robens Committee, 14 June 1971, transcript p. 5. TNA, LAB 96/75.

  10. 10.

    Discussion document ‘The Role and Function of the Safety Officer’, RoSPA National Occupational Health and Safety Committee, 25 November 1976, point 4.6. RoSPA Archives, D.266/2/24.

  11. 11.

    On the need for training and qualifications, see verbal evidence on behalf of RoSPA to the Robens Committee, 14 June 1971, transcript p. 11. TNA, LAB 96/75.

  12. 12.

    R. Williams, ‘A Key Issue’, Work Hazards 21 (c.1979), p. 4. Samuel Barr Collection, GCU DC 140/2/1/2.

  13. 13.

    Martin Thompson, University of Aberdeen ‘Lives in the Oil Industry’ project, tape 2 side b. British Library, London, C963/13.

  14. 14.

    RoSPA National Publicity Committee minutes, 22 September 1971. RoSPA Archives, D.266/2/4/3, p. 5.

  15. 15.

    BRB and HSE, ‘An outline report on OSH by the Accident Prevention Advisory Unit’, p. 1. TNA, AN 16/157.

  16. 16.

    ‘Fatal Accidents to B.R.B. Employees’, 16 August 1977, p. 10. TNA, AN 156/936.

  17. 17.

    Neil Kinnock, ‘Workers’ Safety and Health’, HC Deb 21 May 1973, Hansard vol.857 cc62-117, 66. See also Times, 31 January 1973, p. 7; Times, 4 April 1974, p. 16.

  18. 18.

    http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/enforcement.htm, also Tombs and Whyte (2010, 2013).

  19. 19.

    Parliamentary Papers (1835) XL, p. 698 (cited in Thomas 1948: 76).

  20. 20.

    ‘Fit for Work, Fit for Life, Fit for Tomorrow’: http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/strategiesandplans/hscplans/businessplans/0506/fitfor.htm

  21. 21.

    http://www.hse.gov.uk/fee-for-intervention/.

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