Layers of Vulnerability in Occupational Safety and Health for Migrant Workers: Case Studies from Canada And The UK

Sargeant, Malcolm; Tucker, Eric

doi:10.1080/14774003.2009.11667734

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“…Gaps in employment protection and minimum entitlements emerge; compliance is weakened as employee awareness of entitlements declines or is undermined by their labour market vulnerability; and enforcement processes encounter hurdles such as identifying those with legal responsibility in multiemployer worksites. Inconsistencies or discriminatory aspects in both the form and implementation of regulation practices bear most heavily on those in precarious employment (including foreign and undocumented workers, Sargeant and Tucker, 2009 The model includes risk factors which may be considered worker-related, such as inexperience, multiple-job holding and poor knowledge of legal rights, as well as factors stemming from the employer. However, the former, as will be demonstrated below, are also linked to employer practices.…”

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How Precarious Employment Affects Health and Safety at Work: The Case of Temporary Agency Workers

2011

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Precarious employment has been associated with adverse occupational health and safety (OHS) outcomes across a range of studies. Temporary agency workers are particularly vulnerable, with studies showing they experience a higher incidence of workplace injury, and a greater likelihood of more severe injuries than all other employment types. Explanations for agency workers’ higher risk of injury have, to date, been impeded by data limitations associated with researching temporary employment. This article seeks to begin filling this gap through analyzing the experience of agency workers based upon two data sources. The first is a unique qualitative and quantitative data set developed from investigated temporary agency and directly hired workers’ compensation files; the second is focus groups of agency workers conducted in the State of Victoria, Australia. Quinlan and Bohle’s (2004) Pressures, Disorganization and Regulatory Failure (PDR) model, developed to explain the greater OHS vulnerability of precarious workers, provides the framework for analyzing the data. After explaining the key concepts in the PDR Model, the article analyses the data to test for evidence of economic pressures, disorganization at the workplace, and regulatory failure impacting upon temporary agency workers’ health and safety. The analysis supports the relevance of the PDR model, and provides an understanding of additional and unique risk factors which contribute to agency workers’ higher risk of injury. Temporary agency workers experience economic pressures in common with other types of precarious workers. However, these appear more acute amongst agency workers. They also confront disorganization risks, extending to mismatched placements; lack of familiarity with host workplaces; and more complex fractured communication. These contribute to workplace risks and create barriers to improving their experience. Many of these outcomes are a result of, or contribute to regulatory failure. The analysis finds strong support for the explanatory value of the PDR model as a tool for understanding how precariousness contributes to temporary agency workers’ adverse health and safety outcomes. It also suggests the complexities of the triangular employment relationship create additional economic insecurities and disorganization problems beyond those experienced by other types of workers, which the regulatory environment has yet to address.

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How Precarious Employment Affects Health and Safety at Work: The Case of Temporary Agency Workers

2011

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“…In the USA between 1980 and 1996, as rates of occupational fatalities decreased by 45% among all workers, they increased from 4.3 to 5.7 per 100 000 among foreign-born workers and mostly in Hispanic and Latino workers 27. Disparities in occupational health and safety outcomes between migrants and native-born populations can be explained by differing exposure to a range of occupational health and safety risk factors 11. These include such things as the legal status of the migrant, where undocumented migrant workers have poor access to work rights and protections, or where migrants working in precarious jobs or as day labourers are reluctant to complain about adverse working conditions 28–30.…”

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Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom

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Merler²,

Peters

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Occup Environ Med

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“…Vah Jevšnik; Cukut Krilić 2016). 6 When identifying OSH-related vulnerabilities of posted workers, the layered framework to assess vulnerability in occupational safety and health for migrant workers developed by Sargeant and Tucker (2009) is arguably the most useful. Sargeant and Tucker define migrant workers as workers without a permanent status in the receiving countries, which is also applicable in cases of posting.…”

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“…The article first provides an analytical and theoretical framework for discussing OSH-related vulnerabilities in transnational workplaces within the framework of posting of workers, primarily using Sargeant and Tucker's (2009) layered vulnerability approach. It then focuses on the case of Slovenia, drawing from the data obtained at joint visits and from semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders.…”

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Occupational Safety and Health in Transnational Workplaces: The Case of Posted Workers

Jevšnik¹,

Rogelja²

2018

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Occupational Safety and Health in Transnational Workplaces: The Case of Posted WorkersThe article presents the results of an empirical study on the occupational safety and health (OSH) of posted workers in transnational, multilingual and multi-employer workplaces. The argument is based on data obtained from semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in Slovenia, which we analyse within the framework of Sargeant and Tucker's (2009) layered vulnerability approach. We discuss multiple vulnerabilities of posted workers who are disproportionally recruited into hazardous jobs and exposed to numerous health hazards. Possible measures to reduce OSH-related vulnerabilities of posted workers are identified and discussed, including the role of information sharing and awareness raising. IZVLEČEK Varnost in zdravje pri delu v transnacionalnih delovnih prostorih: Primer napotenih delavcevČlanek predstavlja rezultate empirične študije o varnosti in zdravju pri delu napotenih delavcev v transnacionalnih in večjezičnih delovnih prostorih. Razprava temelji na podatkih, pridobljenih s polstrukturiranimi intervjuji s ključnimi deležniki v Sloveniji, ki jih avtorici analizirata s pomočjo 'pristopa večplastne ranljivosti' (layered vulnerability approach; Sargeant, Tucker 2009). Članek prinaša vpogled v multiple ranljivosti napotenih delavcev, ki so pogosto napoteni na opravljanje dela v nevarnih sektorjih in izpostavljeni številnim zdravstvenim tveganjem, ponuja pa tudi nekaj rešitev za zmanjšanje njihove ranljivosti, med drugim tudi vlogo in pomen učinkovitega širjenja informacij in ozaveščanja. KLJUČNE BESEDE: napoteni delavci, varnost in zdravje pri delu, transnacionalni delovni prostori, ranljivosti, Slovenija

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Layers of Vulnerability in Occupational Safety and Health for Migrant Workers: Case Studies from Canada And The UK

Cited by 85 publications

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How Precarious Employment Affects Health and Safety at Work: The Case of Temporary Agency Workers

How Precarious Employment Affects Health and Safety at Work: The Case of Temporary Agency Workers

Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom

Occupational Safety and Health in Transnational Workplaces: The Case of Posted Workers

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