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

David Walters

Chapter 28 in The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2025, pp 346-357 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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