ABSTRACT
Since this time, a series of major disasters, both in the UK and abroad, including the explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK, the poisonous gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, have brought into focus industry’s potential for ecological devastation. The survey also found 23 workplaces in the private and public sectors where joint management/union environmental auditing is carried out, and twelve employers providing training and education on environmental issues. At Dunlop Ltd, which manufactures rubber products, environmental issues not related to safety are discussed along with a safety-related issues at the safety committee. However, this general increase in an environmental awareness has yet to be translated into collective action, and environmental issues do not appear to have yet pervaded the system of industrial relations to any considerable degree.
