Labour inspectors and unions address psychosocial hazards: researchers and practitioners collaborate to protect workers’ mental health Katherine Lippel.

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Labour inspectors and unions address psychosocial hazards: researchers and practitioners collaborate to protect workers’ mental health Katherine Lippel CRC in Occupational Health and Safety Law, University of Ottawa Ximena Diaz, Amalia Mauro, Julia Medel, Diego Lopez Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, CHILE Teasdale-Corti Program Symposium 1 – 3 October 2012 OTTAWA

Research program: Axis 2 Comparative study of law, policy and interventions on psychosocial hazards, mental health and work, analysed through a gender lens

Policy studies in the Araucaria project Comparative analysis of Québec and Chilean law Adaptation of a Québec INSPQ surveillance tool for detection of psychosocial risk factors Implementation of the surveillance tool, training in Chile. Comparative analysis of regulatory instruments in many other jurisdictions. Comparative study of implementation strategies.

Policy related activities of the research team Three international seminars held in Santiago in 2007, 2010 and 2012 where researchers and research users from various countries, including Chile and Canada presented papers on themes related to the research programme Four special issues of journals: describing the situation in 16 countries Work and mental health (IJLP) Law of workplace bullying (JCLLP) Role of labour inspectors and unions in prevention of mental health problems (Safety Science) Law of workplace bullying and harassment in the Americas (Revista de Estudios Laborales)

Workers’ Compensation Acute-Chronic stress No public policy mechanisms/tort law Anti-harassment legislation Risk assessment/ Manageme nt systems Policy typologies regulating exposure to psycho-social risk factors OHS regulation labour inspection Constitutional law

Why harassment/bullying? It is politically easier to legislate on bullying because of the more individualistic approach This may eclipse the need to address fundamentally important psychosocial hazards: job strain, employment strain, effort-reward imbalance, job insecurity Policy artificially divides the different hazards Cox, 2010

Seminars and publications as tools for change Integration of praxis with a gender lens Research: Law Industrial relations Sociology Psychology Practice: Regulation Inspection Union and Worker representative action International integration Comparative law Comparative Implementation strategies National integration Unions Community groups Women’s groups Regulators Academics Inspectors

Capacity building objectives To multiply the tools available for local, national and international research users to intervene in the workplace and to influence policy in order to reduce psychosocial hazards To multiply the number of researchers and research users in a variety of jurisdictions who are interested or preoccupied by our core issues: Psychosocial hazards Gender perspective Precarious employment

Challenge - 1 All of this to be done in a context of work intensification and globalisation where ‘‘many of the factors that have contributed to the declining influence [of workers’ representation on health and safety] are the same ones that contribute to the rise in psychosocial risks and their effects at work’’. Walters, 2011

Challenge - 2

To learn more… International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, vol.30: 4-5, 2007 Safety Science, vol. 49:4, 2011 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, vol. 32: 1, chairohslaw a.cl/