David is Professor of Work Environment and Director, Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, Cardiff University.
Research Interests:
Work environment; employee representation and consultation on health and safety, the politics of health and safety at work, regulating health and safety management, chemical risk management at work, and health and safety in small firms.
Publications:
Publications List (2007 to PRESENT)
Books and monographs
Walters, D. and Bailey, N. (forthcoming) Lives in Peril: Profit or Safety in the Global Maritime Industry? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nichols, T. and Walters, D. (eds.) (forthcoming) Safety or Profit? International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment. Amityville, New York: Baywood Publishing.
Walters, D., Johnstone, R., Frick, K., Quinlan, M., Baril-Gingras, G. and Thebaud-Mony, A. (2011) Regulating Workplace Risks: A Comparative Study of Inspection Regimes in Times of Change. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Walters, D. and James, P. (2009) Understanding the role of supply chains in influencing health and safety at work. Wigston, Leicester: IOSH.
Walters, D. and Nichols T. (eds.) (2009) Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Walters, D. (2008) Within Reach? Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises. New York: Baywood Publishing.
Westerholm, P. and Walters, D. (eds.) (2007) Supporting Health at Work: International Perspectives on Occupational Health Services. Leicester: IOSH.
Walters, D. and Nichols, T. (2007) Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapters in Books:
James, P. and Walters, D. (2011) Supply Chains and the Protection of Vulnerable Workers. In: Sargeant, M and Giovannone, M. eds. Safety, Well-being and Precarious Work. Surrey: Gower Publishing Ltd.
Newman-Taylor, A. and Walters, D. (2010) Compensation Schemes. In: Baxter, P.L. Aw, T-C., Cockroft, A. Durrington, P. and Harrington, J.M. eds. Hunters’s Diseases of Occupations (Tenth edition), Chapter 8. London: Hodder & Stroughton.
Vogel, L. and Walters, D. (2009) An Afterword on European Union Policy and Practice. In: Walters, D. and Nichols T. eds. Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Loudoun, R. and Walters, D. (2009) Trade Union Strategies to Support Representation on Health and Safety in Australia and the UK: Integration or Isolation? In: Walters D. and Nichols T. eds. Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nichols, T. and Walters, D. (2009) Worker Representation on Health and Safety in the UK: Problems with the Preferred Model and Beyond. In: Walters D. and Nichols T. eds. Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Walters, D. and Nichols, T. (2009) Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work. In: Walters, D. and Nichols T. eds. Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Refereed Journals:
Cunningham, I., James, P. and Walters, D. (2011) Social care outsourcing in Britain and its potential occupational health consequences. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 9(1), 79-93.
Walters, D. (2011) Flying in the face of the evidence? Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 9(1), 1-3.
Walters, D. James, P. (2011) What motivates employers to establish preventive management arrangements within supply chains? Safety Science.
Walters, D. (2011) Worker representation and psycho-social risks: A problematic relationship? Safety Science, 49(4), 599–606.
James, P., Johnstone, R., Quinlan, M. and Walters, D. (2007) Regulating supply chains to improve health and safety , Industrial Law Journal, 36(2), 163-187.
Nichols, T., Walters, D.R. and Tasiran, A.C. (2007) Trade Unions, Institutional Mediation and Industrial Safety – Evidence from the UK , Journal of Industrial Relations, 49(2), 211-225.
Professional Journals:
Walters, D. (2007) Merger proposals in the spotlight. Occupational Health Review, 128, 16.
Walters D. (2007) EU systems for compensation and rehabilitation; an overview. Occupational Health Review, 129, 19-24.
Other Publications:
Wadsworth, E.J.K., Marsh, K.L., Turgo, N., Walters, D.R. (2011) Supply chain management for health and safety [Online]. London 2012 website.[October 2011].
Walters, D. (2010) The role of Worker Representation and Consultation in Managing Health and Safety in the Construction Industry , ILO Sectoral Activities Department, Working Paper 270, Geneva: International Labour Office.
Funding:
Current:
Analysis of the determinants of workplace occupational safety and health practice in a selection of EU Member States – Funded by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Managing the health and safety of workers in globalised container terminals – Funded by the International Transport Workers’ Federation
Past projects:
ESENER – Analysis of the findings of the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks on the effectiveness and support for worker representation and consultation on health and safety – (funded by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work)
NERCLIS – Contract to assess the potential impact of emerging trends and risks on labour inspection methodologies in the domain of occupational health and safety – (funded by the European Commission)
Supply chain management for health and safety – (funded by IOSH)
REACH – Analysis of needs and the development of an instrument to help employers, workers and their representatives implement the requirements of REACH in small firms that are downstream users of chemical substances in the EU textiles industry – (funded by the European Commission)
EPSARE — The Effectiveness of Safety Representatives on Occupational Health: A European Perspective: research project undertaken in collaboration with the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels – (Funded by SALTSA, Sweden, the European Commission and ISAST, Paris)
CADIMPLE — An Evaluation of the Impact of the EU Chemical Agents Directive in Member States – (funded by the European commission DG V).
Transferring knowledge for effective management of chemical risks in small firms (funded by the Knowledge Exploitation Fund of the Welsh Assembly Government)
Understanding the role of supply chains in influencing health and safety management and regulation, in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University – (Funded by IOSH)
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