Health and safety: an emerging issue on the shop floor

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Title:	Health and safety: an emerging issue on the shop floor
Authors:	Myers, Jonny Steinberg, Malcolm
Year:	1984
Periodical:	South African Review - SARS
Pages:	145-155
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	occupational safety occupational health
Abstract:	1983 was an eventful year for industrial health and safety in South Africa, and was characterized by a number of new developments. The year saw some legal fruits of ten years of intensified conflict between capital and labour - two new laws and one Bill concerned with health and safety were passed. The new legislation does not provide significant concessions to labour. It serves rather to reinforce mutually beneficient State/management relationships and their joint domination of labour. Sections: The State (the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, the Machinery and Occupational Safety Act, the Occupational Medicine Bill) - Management - The unions - Unemployed workers - Health and safety workers - Conclusion.