Mine Safety: Law Regulation PolicyFederation Press, 2007 - 291 pages Historically, the mining industry has had a high incidence of work related injury and disease, and of disasters involving multiple fatalities. It also faces OHS challenges far exceeding those confronting most other industry sectors.Mine safety legislation can play an important role in meeting those challenges. Although regulation is never likely to be the entire answer, good regulation not only brings laggards up to a minimum legal standard, it also encourages, rewards and facilitates leaders in going beyond them. Bad regulation, in contrast, constrains good enterprises from taking the initiative to improve OHS, while failing to deter bad ones.This book describes mine safety legislation in the "mining states" and analyses its strengths and weaknesses. It also examines the broader policy questions of how best to design, implement and enforce mine safety regulation.It argues that substantial reform will be necessary not only in setting standards, but also in their implementation, if further OHS improvements are to be achieved. This implies substantial changes in the way the mine safety inspectorates go about their tasks: in how they administer and enforce the law; and in the circumstances in which they choose to prosecute. It also requires the nurturing of a degree of trust between employers and workers (individually and collectively) and between both these parties and the mines inspectorates, that has been substantially lacking in recent years. |
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... consequence low fre- quency events ( disasters such as Moura and Gretley ) , as well as the low consequence high frequency events ( such as slips , strains and falls ) contribute to the industry's high lost time injury rate . The indus ...
... consequence low fre- quency events ( disasters such as Moura and Gretley ) , as well as the low consequence high frequency events ( such as slips , strains and falls ) contribute to the industry's high lost time injury rate . The indus ...
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... consequences . Large corporations bring considerable OHS expertise to their operations . But the drive for profitability and resource efficiencies and internal competition for budgets also bring their own substantial OHS challenges ...
... consequences . Large corporations bring considerable OHS expertise to their operations . But the drive for profitability and resource efficiencies and internal competition for budgets also bring their own substantial OHS challenges ...
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... consequences being imposed on organisations in their sector and , of these three fifths , over eighty five per cent ... consequence of the distinctiveness of mine safety legis- lation and its implementation ( and of the relative ...
... consequences being imposed on organisations in their sector and , of these three fifths , over eighty five per cent ... consequence of the distinctiveness of mine safety legis- lation and its implementation ( and of the relative ...
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... example only " tend to point in general directions " ( Wran & McClelland 2005 , 13 ) . In consequence both identified a need for further assessment and analysis over a longer timeframe OHS , REGULATION AND THE MINING INDUSTRY 7.
... example only " tend to point in general directions " ( Wran & McClelland 2005 , 13 ) . In consequence both identified a need for further assessment and analysis over a longer timeframe OHS , REGULATION AND THE MINING INDUSTRY 7.
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... consequence of this separation of mining from mainstream OHS has been to isolate the industry from legislative and regulatory developments elsewhere . What became regarded as " next generation regulation " as regards OHS generally , was ...
... consequence of this separation of mining from mainstream OHS has been to isolate the industry from legislative and regulatory developments elsewhere . What became regarded as " next generation regulation " as regards OHS generally , was ...
Contents
15 | |
Towards Best Practice | 62 |
Designing Appropriate Standards for SMEs | 88 |
Conclusion | 94 |
Interaction with the Workforce | 109 |
Inspection and Enforcement Strategies | 116 |
Inspection and Enforcement Tools | 134 |
Deterrent | 152 |
Industry Associations Trade Unions and Worker | 190 |
Building Trust | 210 |
13 | 253 |
31 | 268 |
Index | 273 |
37 | 274 |
54 | 284 |
Cases | 289 |
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