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Workplace health and safety in pre-accession Lithuania: a survey

Authors: Woolfson, Charles; Beck, Matthias; Sceponavicius, Audrius

Source: Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, Issue 1 , pp. 59-81(23)

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  • Policy and Practice in Health and Safety is an international journal published twice a year. It's designed as a forum for academic and policy discourse on health and safety and is aimed at those who practise, tutor, research or study health and safety regulation and management. All published papers have undergone a double-blind refereeing process by at least two referees.

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Abstract:

The paper reports on the preliminary results of a national survey of employees in business enterprises in Lithuania. The survey was conducted with the primary goal of gauging employee 'voice' and participation in health and safety matters in Lithuanian enterprises. Conducted during 2001 and 2002, the survey of over 4,000 employees is the largest to date on this topic for any individual Central and Eastern European candidate country. The period covered by the survey coincides with the implementation of the Law on Safety and Health at Work 2000, produced to incorporate European Union directives on health and safety into Lithuanian legislation. It is suggested that despite legislative transposition, workforce attitudes are primarily conditioned by pervasive insecurity and fear of unemployment. Opportunities for participation in health and safety, on both the part of trade unions and by employees in small and medium-sized enterprises, remain largely unrealised.

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