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Securing compliance with standards of occupational health and safety: labour inspection and its challenges

In: The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals

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This chapter considers the role of regulatory inspection in securing substantive compliance with standards on decent work in the case of occupational safety and health (OSH) in establishments operating in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). It demonstrates that there is an important role for labour inspection in the regulatory mixes that appear necessary for more effective achievement of improved arrangements for OSH and its contribution to decent work in these countries. It finds this also to be so, in the case of production that is sourced by global supply chains (GSCs) in these LMICs, as well as beyond them in the wider economies of these states. There are a number of models of orchestrated regulatory influence in which both labour inspectorates and public regulation may, potentially, act in this way. However equally significantly, also evident in the literature are a host of major barriers to the delivery of this potential.

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  • David Walters, 2025. "Securing compliance with standards of occupational health and safety: labour inspection and its challenges," Chapters, in: Madelaine Moore & Christoph Scherrer & Marcel van der Linden (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, chapter 28, pages 346-357, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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