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Regulamentação das cadeias de fornecedores para proteger a saúde e segurança de trabalhadores vulneráveis / Supply chain regulation to protect the occupational health and safety of vulnerable workers
Quinlan, Michael; Johnstone, Richard; James, Phillip; Nossar, Igor.
  • Quinlan, Michael; University of New South Wales. School of Organisation and Management. Sydney. AU
  • Johnstone, Richard; Griffith University. Law School. Queensland. AU
  • James, Phillip; Middlesex University. Business School. London. GB
  • Nossar, Igor; Textile, Clothing and Footwear Unoin. Austrália. AU
Rev. bras. saúde ocup ; 32(115)jan.-jun. 2007.
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-560151
RESUMO
Um grande número de pesquisas recentes evidencia que as estratégias de subcontratação de serviços e produtos e a contratação de trabalhadores contingentes, nas chamadas cadeias de fornecedores, afetam os processos de planejamento e tomada de decisão de maneira a solapar seriamente a Segurança e Saúde dos Trabalhadores (SST). Complexas cadeias de fornecedores apresentam um desafio para a ação de regulamentação, pois a responsabilidade legal pela SST está difusa dentre um maior espectro de atores sociais, com mais dificuldades para focalizar os principais tomadores de decisão, e as agências de governo encontram maiores dificuldades logísticas na tentativa de proteger legalmente os trabalhadores contingentes, como os temporários e terceirizados. Em certo número de indústrias, esses problemas têm instigado novas formas de intervenção regulamentadora, incluindo mecanismos para alocar a responsabilidade legal no topo das cadeias de fornecedores, dispositivos de acompanhamento contratual e crescente envolvimento da indústria, dos sindicatos e da comunidade nafiscalização do cumprimento da lei. Depois de descrever os problemas acima referidos, este artigo examina recentes esforços para regulamentar as cadeias defornecedores para salvaguardar a SST no Reino Unido e na Austrália.
ABSTRACT
The last two decades have witnessed a fragmentation of previously integrated systems of production and service delivery with the advent of boundary-less, networked and porous organisational forms. This trend has been associated with the growth of outsourcing and increased use of contingent workers. One consequence of these changes is the development of production/service delivery systems based on complex national and international networks of multi-tiered subcontracting increasingly labelled as supply chains. A growing body ofresearch indicates that subcontracting and contingent work arrangements affect design and decision-making processes in ways that can seriously undermine occupational health and safety (OHS). Elaborate supply chains also present a regulatory challenge because legal responsibility for OHS is diffused amongst a wider array of parties, targeting key decision-makers is more difficult, and government agencies encounter greater logistical difficulties trying to safeguard contingent workers. In a number of industries these problems have prompted new forms of regulatory intervention, including mechanisms for sheeting legal responsibility to the top of supply chains, contractual tracking devices and increasing industry, union and community involvement in enforcement. After describing the problems just alluded to this paper examines recent efforts to regulate supply chains to safeguard OHS in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Language: Portuguese Journal: Rev. bras. saúde ocup Journal subject: Occupational Medicine / Public Health Year: 2007 Type: Article Affiliation country: Australia / United kingdom Institution/Affiliation country: Griffith University/AU / Middlesex University/GB / Textile, Clothing and Footwear Unoin/AU / University of New South Wales/AU

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Language: Portuguese Journal: Rev. bras. saúde ocup Journal subject: Occupational Medicine / Public Health Year: 2007 Type: Article Affiliation country: Australia / United kingdom Institution/Affiliation country: Griffith University/AU / Middlesex University/GB / Textile, Clothing and Footwear Unoin/AU / University of New South Wales/AU