The Responsibilization Strategy of Health and Safety
Neo-liberalism and the Reconfiguration of Individual Responsibility for Risk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory C Gray (0000-0002-4628-5908, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 326-342 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azp004 |
| OpenAlex | W1965302894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 80 |
| References cited | 33 |
Workplace safety is undergoing a process of ‘responsibilization’. While employers have traditionally been the target of health and safety law, workers are increasingly assigned greater responsibility for their own safety at work and are held accountable, judged, and sanctioned through this lens. This is illustrated through an analysis of the rationales and mentalities of a new ticketing regulatory system in Canada whereby workers are targeted for sanctions and blamed for health and safety violations. Under the responsibilization strategy of health and safety, workers are not only re-defined as both potential victims and offenders but they also find themselves forced to adopt a rights-defined identity. This is a significant albeit subtle shift that paves the way for a host of new projects that strive to reveal the discourses and techniques that define and characterize individual responsibilization in health and safety.
Identity (music) · Law and economics · Political science · Public relations · Sanctions · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Law · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Regulation and Compliance Studies
From Public Good to Private Provision
The scalar arrangements of three European public health systems facing the Covid-19 pandemic
The Flows of Racial Capitalism
The Sociology of Near Misses
Big Oil U
The limits of 'neoliberal natures
Revolution Blues
Socially constructing safety
The Pragmatic Politics of Regulatory Enforcement
The Myth of the Community Fix
Digital detox
‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’
A qualitative exploration of work-related head injury
Rethinking disability employment in the digital era
Who cares for carers? Responsibilization and the discourse of self-care in health and social care literature during the Covid-19 pandemic. A critical review
Engaging recreational fishers in fisheries’ stewardship
Digitale forstyrrelser
Determinants of effective action on workplace safety and health in global companies — The case of global network container terminal operators
Law Lost, Compliance Found
The role of union health and safety representatives during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Community-based personal support workers’ responses to health and safety risks
Keeping up with Covid‐19 information
Reframing responsibility-sharing for bushfire risk management in Australia after Black Saturday
The co-production of a workplace health promotion program
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses
Discipline that hurts”
Governing freedom through risk
Intelligent modes of imperfect governance
Responsibilization in governance of non-industrial private forestry
Responsibilization and social forestry in Indonesia
Research trends
The practical potential of self-advocacy for improving safety outcomes for school-aged workers
Neoliberalism and work-related risks
Risk rituals
Shifting risk to the frontline
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia
Citizen participation in community safety
Worker Representation in the Regulation of Occupational Health
Dialogue & Debate
Law, Regulation, and Safety Crime
Circuits of Discipline
From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism
Re-organising wellbeing
Governing workplace safety through apparatuses
The logic of responsibilisation
Safeguarding labour in distant factories
Primary Crime Prevention Apps
Public health crisis as problematization
The impossibility problem
Embedded and Embodied
Depend on Each Other and Don't Just Sit
Cyber Security Responsibilization
Private video monitoring of public spaces
Enabling selves to conduct themselves safely
Insider Accounts of Institutional Corruption
Communication and Social Regulation
Making Sense of Disaster
The politics of regulatory enforcement and compliance
The responsibilization of entrepreneurs in legalized local prostitution in the Netherlands
Accountability infrastructures
Regulatory disempowerment
Misclassification, Tipping and the Responsibilisation of Work in the Global South
Governing Inside the Organization
A qualitative narrative policy framework? Examining the policy narratives of US campaign finance regulatory reform
Frontline Safety
Workplace Violence
Anti-Pandemic Policies in Estonia and Taiwan
Voting with Your Fork? Industrial Free-Range Eggs and the Regulatory Construction of Consumer Choice
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon
Greening the Gulag
The biopower of ignorance
The depoliticization of health and safety committees and representation
Rational corporation meets disciplined worker
The political economy of occupational health and safety regulation
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Participation
Mobilizing Risk
Making sense of bodily sensations
In the name of security
Crowdsourcing Criminology
Taking Responsibility
Regulatory Capture, Public Interest, and the Public Agenda
Critical trust
From the Environment to the Workplace and Back Again? Occupational Health and Safety Activism in Ontario, 1970s–2000
The Commonplace and the Catastrophic
The Politics of Rights
Investigating Health and Safety Regulation
Corporate Violence
Bad Business
Public Perceptions of Work-Related Fatality Cases
An Inspector's-Eye View
The Regulation of Corporate Violations
The Local Culture of Punishment
Violence', Safety Crimes and Criminology
Government and Control
The Limits of the Sovereign State
Regulation Crisis
From Manslaughter to Preventable Accident
Risk and Responsibility
Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime
Political power beyond the State
Managing Major Hazards
Everyday understandings of the law in working-class America
Taming Prometheus
Governing economic life
Introduction to Lorenz von Stein
| Unique citing works | 80 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,71 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |