Regulating Workplace Safety

System and Sanctions
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-826824-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 759 g

Reihe: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies

Drawing from experience internationally, on recent and important developments in regulatory theory, and upon models and approaches constructed during the author's empirical research, this book addresses the question: how can law influence the internal self-regulation of organisations in order to make them more responsive to occupational health and safety concerns? In this context, it is argued that Occupational Health and Safety management systems have the potential
to stimulate models of self-organisation within firms in such a way as to make them self-reflective and to encourage informal self-critical reflection about their occupational health and safety performance.

This book argues for a two track system of regulation under which enterprises are offered a choice between a continuation of traditional forms of regulation and the adoption of a safety management system-based approach on the other. The book concludes with a discussion of the use of criminal and administrative sanctions to provide organisations with incentives to adopt effective Occupational Health and Safety management systems. The book proposes a wider range of criminal sanctions and
sentencing guidelines to ensure employers receive sentencing discounts where they have introduced effective management systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunningham, Neil

Cunningham, Neil

Johnstone, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Gunningham is Professor of Law and Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at The Australian National University, Canberra. In 1997 he was Visiting and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He was previously a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago.

Richard Johnstone is Associate Professor at the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. In 1992 and 1996 he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.