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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... corporations now employ the very large majority of the workforce ( NSWMC 2004 ) . Yet , at the same time , there has been a growth in the number of small or very small enterprises operating in the industry . This bifurcation has ...
... corporations now employ the very large majority of the workforce ( NSWMC 2004 ) . Yet , at the same time , there has been a growth in the number of small or very small enterprises operating in the industry . This bifurcation has ...
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... corporate priority , which rarely gained much attention from senior management , to one where OHS receives considerable emphasis at boardroom level . Many major companies now devote considerable energy and resources to improving their ...
... corporate priority , which rarely gained much attention from senior management , to one where OHS receives considerable emphasis at boardroom level . Many major companies now devote considerable energy and resources to improving their ...
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... corporate regulation found that : [ T ] hree fifths of our respondent companies were aware of serious punitive consequences being imposed on organisations in their sector and , of these three fifths , over eighty five per cent said this ...
... corporate regulation found that : [ T ] hree fifths of our respondent companies were aware of serious punitive consequences being imposed on organisations in their sector and , of these three fifths , over eighty five per cent said this ...
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... corporate level , mine managers and under - managers , deputies and supervisors , local and district check inspectors / safety representatives , trade union officials , senior regulators , industry consultants and OHS lawyers ...
... corporate level , mine managers and under - managers , deputies and supervisors , local and district check inspectors / safety representatives , trade union officials , senior regulators , industry consultants and OHS lawyers ...
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... corporation contra- venes a provision of the Act or the regulations , then each director and each person " concerned in the management " of the corporation is taken to have contravened the same provision , unless they can establish a ...
... corporation contra- venes a provision of the Act or the regulations , then each director and each person " concerned in the management " of the corporation is taken to have contravened the same provision , unless they can establish a ...
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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