Cooperation of Employees and Employers in Occupational Safety and Health Management

Abstract

The main theme of this paper is worker-employer cooperation in occupational health and safety management. This is one of the most topical topics, since the provision of occupational health and safety is key to reducing risks in the workplace. Therefore, questions arise about how to ensure that the health and safety problem in a company or organisation is addressed by the employer and employee working together. Many companies are tackling this issue in different ways, whether through employee motivation, on-the-job training, raising awareness, cooperation, etc. Various research has been conducted on this topic, which has shown the positive results of cooperation in occupational health and safety management. This paper thus deals with the themes of employer-employee interaction, in which mutual communication, risk reduction and prevention are key. The paper then goes on to compare governance in the European Union and Slovenia. Given the situation that forced large numbers of employees to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the subject is also approached from this aspect, how employers can ensure employee safety when working from home. At the end of the paper, some examples are given of how Slovenian and foreign companies are tackling and solving the problem in practice.