Opiniones de los delegados de prevención sobre su interacción con los trabajadores en un contexto de relaciones desiguales de poderun estudio cualitativo exploratorio en Barcelona
- Ollé-Espluga L.
- Menéndez-Fuster M.
- Muntaner C.
- Benach J.
- Vergara-Duarte M.
- Vázquez ML
ISSN: 1138-9672, 1578-2549
Year of publication: 2015
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Pages: 159-161
Type: Article
More publications in: Archivos de prevención de riesgos laborales
Abstract
The interaction between workers and safety representatives (SRs), a factor that determines SRs’ effectiveness, is an unexplored issue within occupational health research. We undertook a qualitative exploratory interpretativedescriptive study by means of semi-structured interviews with SRs from Barcelona (Spain) to analyze the SRs’ perspective on the interaction with workers and its determinants. Findings indicated that SRs’ interaction with workers is mainly limited to information processes and to identifying occupational hazards. Prominent factors determining this interaction are associated with the way SRs understand and carry out their role, the firm sector and size, and workers’ fear of dismissal, exacerbated by changes in the labour market and the current economic crisis. In conclusion, interaction with workers is influenced by a more prevalent technical-legal view of the SRs’ role and by unequal power relations between workers and management. Poor interaction with workers might lead to decreasing SRs’ effectiveness.