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Dynamics and Limits to the Empowerment of Labour Expertise in Health and Safety at Work
[Dynamiques et limites de l'autonomisation de l'expertise auprès des CHSCT]

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  • Paula Cristofalo

    (EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP])

Abstract

The right for worker representatives to rely on expertise in the field of working conditions was created in 1982. Since that date, besides other institutional actors such as doctors or labor inspectors, a new category of specialists has been developing. Those actors were granted a legal status of State-certified experts in the early 1990s. The article relates the development of the main bodies that have been operating in this field at the request of elected committees for health and safety at work (CHSCT). Whereas those bodies were at first closely linked to the labour movement, they progressively had to distance themselves from trade unions in order to reproduce both economic and symbolic requirements for their own legitimacy. However, such distancing does not imply any separation – it rather means that expert bodies and trade unions mutually redefined their relationship.

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  • Paula Cristofalo, 2012. "Dynamics and Limits to the Empowerment of Labour Expertise in Health and Safety at Work [Dynamiques et limites de l'autonomisation de l'expertise auprès des CHSCT]," Post-Print hal-01528580, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01528580
    DOI: 10.3917/rdli.074.0127
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