From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures and organizational failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, the empirical analysis in this article confirms that the incidence of a works council is significantly associated with an increased likelihood that the establishment provides more workplace health promotion than required by law. This result also holds in regressions accounting for the possible endogeneity of works council incidence. Furthermore, analysing potentially moderating factors such as collective bargaining coverage, industry, type of ownership, multi-establishment status and product market competition, the article finds a positive association between works councils and workplace health promotion for the various types of establishments examined. Finally, this study goes beyond the mere incidence of workplace health promotion and shows that works councils are positively associated with a series of different measures of workplace health promotion.

从理论上讲，可能存在市场失灵和组织失灵，导致职业健康与安全的准备不足。劳动委员会可以帮助减轻这些失败。使用德国的企业数据，本文中的经验分析证实，劳资联合会的发生与企业提供比法律要求更多的促进工作场所健康的可能性的显着增加有关。该结果还可以通过回归分析来解释劳资委员会发生率的内生性。此外，分析了潜在的适度因素，例如集体谈判的覆盖面，行业，所有权类型，多机构状态和产品市场竞争，该文章发现，在所检查的各种类型的机构中，工作委员会与工作场所健康促进之间存在正相关关系。最后，这项研究超出了仅促进工作场所健康的范围，并且表明，劳动委员会与一系列促进工作场所健康的不同措施有着积极的联系。