title: Safety and health conditions, practices, and priorities for OSHA reform: a comparison of views of New Jersey union members and safety and health professionals.
abstract: This article draws on survey and interview data from New Jersey occupational health and safety professionals and union members to provide insights into the interactions among workers, management, unions, and health and safety professionals that shape work place conditions and practices. A substantial number of both professionals and union members reported: serious or very serious health and safety problems; limited access to effective resources for addressing these problems; and the presence of serious barriers to resolving these problems. Fewer than half of the union and professional respondents reported that effective participatory mechanisms such as union/management health and safety committees existed at their work sites, and many interview respondents described situations in which serious problems might be aired but seldom resolved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urban Studies & Community Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1953, USA.
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authors.lastname: Ochsner