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Working without limits? re-organising work and reconsidering workers' health
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| 25-27 September 2000 | Brussels |
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European working life in the 1990s underwent profound changes and new forms of work organisation emerged. Expressions like down-sizing, lean production, just-in-time, flexible hours, teleworking, outsourcing, contingent work, casualisation, internationalisation and multi-skilling are being used to describe different aspects of these changes, but the overall trend is
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towards the dissolution of known rules and limits, not least job security.
Too little is known about the health effects of these organisational changes, but their impacts on the mental and physical well-being of workers can readily be imagined.
As well as academic studies, knowledge based on workplace experience can help to identify the problems arising from these organisational changes, giving visibility to many ignored or underestimated health effects. It can contribute to integrating workers' needs more closely into the political agenda, and a more systematic inclusion of working aspects in collective bargaining.
This conference is a joint undertaking by the TUTB and SALTSA. It will focus on a selection of branches and sectors, on which parallel workshops will be held.
The conference has a range of aims:
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to bridge academic, professional and cultural gaps in a common quest for applicable knowledge;
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to identify workers' needs in order to counter negative effects and properly negotiate the new trends;
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to establish contacts and networks for fruitful future co-operation across national, academic and organisational boundaries;
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to identify vital research needs for the years to come.
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| Plenary sessions |
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Session I: Labour Market and Work Organisation Trends
- The New Labour Market and the Third Industrial Revolution
Lars Magnusson, National Institute of Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden
- Changing Work Organisation in Europe
Peter Totterdill, The Nottingham Trent University, Centre for Work and Technology, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Session II: Casualisation and Flexibility: Impact on Worker's Health
- Non-standard Employment, Subcontracting, Flexibility, Health
Annie Thébaud-Mony, Research Centre for Challenges in Public Health, INSERM, Bobigny, France
- Work and Job Insecurity : a Reality Checked
Elisabeth Wendelen, National Institute for Research on Working Conditions, Brussels, Belgium
- From Intensive to Sustainable Work Systems : The Quest for a New Paradigm of Work
Frans M. Van Eijnatten, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Faculty of Technology Management (TM), Netherlands
Session III: Tools for Assessment - Tools for Action
- Seeing working conditions through workers' eyes
Laurent Vogel, European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety, Brussels, Belgium
- Experiences of Transmission from Occupational Health to Working Health Research
Christer Hogstedt, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden
Session VI: Towards New Prevention Strategies
- Ageing and Sustainable Work Ability
Juhani Ilmarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
- A New Occupational Health Prevention for a New Work Environment: Needs, Principles and Challenges
Joan Benach, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Parallel workshop session - ROAD TRANSPORT
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The Working Time of Professional Drivers as a Factor of Flexibility and Competitiveness in Road Haulage and Passenger Transport - Introductory Report
Patrick Hamelin, INRETS, France
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The MUNI Health and Safety Project: Observational Job Analysis to identify Stress Factors in Urban Transit Driving Tasks
Birgit A. Greiner, University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, USA
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Regional Safety Reps and the New Economy in Road Transport
Kaj Frick, National Institute for Working Life, Sweden
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Health, Safety and Intensification in Railway Infrastructure Maintenance and Renewal
James Ellison, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
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Optimising the Working Conditions of Self-employed Urban Parcel Delivery Workers
Gabriel Moreno Jiménez, Federación de Comunicación y Transporte de CC.OO, Spain
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Work Organisation and its Impact on Health in Road Transportation
Joël Le Coq, Union Fédérale Route FGTE CFDT, France
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An Evaluation of Trade Union Strategies for Preventing Workload and Stress
Jan Warning, FNV Bondgenoten, The Netherlands
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Hazard Analyses as Driver for the Reconstruction of a Maintenance Department - A Case Study
Robert Schleicher, BIT-Bochum, Germany
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Parallel workshop session - HEALTH and HOSPITAL PROFESSIONS
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The Hospital Sector in Europe - Introductory Report
Marianne De Troyer, TEF-Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Work Organization and its Impact on Health: Proposal for Monitoring
Beloyanna Cerioli, Azienda Ospedaliera di Bologna Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi, Italy
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Sick-leave Data for Jobs in German Hospitals as an Indicator of Health Impairing Working Conditions
Dieter Bonitz, IPAG-Team, Essen, Germany
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Trade Union Involvement in the Organization of Work, and Psychosocial Risks in the Health Sector
Sofia Vega, Comisiones Obreras de Catalunya, Spain
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Working Conditions and Well-being in the Finnish Health Care Services in 1992 and 1999
Gustav Wickström, Turku Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
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New Forms of Work Organisation in the Hospital Sector: Improvement of Working Conditions, Health and Quality - Experiences of Co-operation between the Social Partners in the Hospitals in Denmark
Torben Møller, Det Kommunale Kartel, Denmark
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Evaluation of Psychosocial Working Conditions in a German Hospital with a Swedish Instrument
Barbro Rönsch-Hasselhorn, University of Wuppertal, Germany
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Modern Occupational Health Systems in Industrial Workplace and in Hospitals: Comparative Analysis of Romania Experience
Liliana Rapas, Direction of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania
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| Parallel workshop session - METAL INDUSTRY |
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Reorganizing Work and Decentralizing production. Flexibilization of Working Conditions or Deterioration? - Introductory Report
Reorganización del trabajo y descentralización productiva. ¿Flexibilización o degradación de las condiciones de trabajo?
José Ignacio Gil, Metalworkers' Federation Technical Agency, CC.OO., Spain
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The Experiences of Workers' Safety Representatives in Practising Risk Assessment and Management on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the Emilia-Romagna Region
Gino Rubini, Environment and Health Unit, CGIL Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Re-Regulation Working Time - New Management Concepts and Deteriorating Worker Health
Klaus Pickshaus, IG Metall, Department of health and safety, Germany
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Work Time Arrangements and Occupational Risk Management
Claudie Rousseau, INRS, France
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Work Ability and Aging of Employees in a Metal Industry
Willem J.H. Goedhard, Occupational Health and Aging, Free University HVSG Faculty of Medecine, The Netherlands
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Deterioration of Working Conditions in Intensive Work Systems. Measurement of Work Intensification and Identification of the Causes of Intensification
Giusto Barisi, ISERES/CGT, France
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New Forms of Labour Management in a French Metalwork Company – Impact on Health and Work
Gaudart Corinne, Millanvoye Michel, Pueyo Valérie, Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes sur l'Age et les Populations au Travail, France
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| Poster Session and Conference Report |
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Last updated: 27/11/2008
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