Phil James
Phil James is Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University and a member of IER's executive committee. He has researched and published widely within the fields of both industrial relations and occupational health and safety and twice served as a specialist adviser to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on inquiries into the work of the Health and Safety Executive. Phil is co-author (with David Walters) of the IER book Regulating Health and Safety at Work: An Agenda for Change?
Shake it up: IER agenda for health and safety reform
06 July 2018
By Phil James, Middlesex University
Too many workers and their families continue to suffer from the failure of their employing organisations to provide safe and healthy working conditions. Injuries, acute and chronic ill-health and death occur all too frequently, along with the emotional and financial costs they cause. Yet employing organisations are rarely held accountable. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the majority of the associated costs are borne by those harmed, their families, and the taxpayer in benefits and health care.
This is how we can properly protect the health and safety of workers
26 May 2017
By Phil James, Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University; David Walters, Professor of Work Environment at Cardiff University; Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology at the Open University; and David Whyte, Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool
Too many workers and their families suffer from the failure of their employing organisations to provide safe and healthy working conditions. Injuries, acute and chronic ill-health and death occur all too frequently, also generating emotional and financial costs. Yet employing organisations are rarely held accountable for these outcomes. In fact, most of the associated costs are borne by those harmed and their families, and the taxpayer through the costs of paying benefits and providing health care.
HSE statistics point to stagnating health and safety performance and declining enforcement
16 November 2015
By Phil James
New HSE statistics covering the year 2014-15 report a rise in work-related fatal injuries, suggest that national health and safety performance may be stagnating and illustrate how enforcement action by local authority inspectors is falling dramatically.
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