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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Page viii
... engaged in numerous discussions about the book's subject matter , both read advanced drafts of the entire book and both provided numerous detailed and insightful comments which substantially improved the end product . I am also grateful ...
... engaged in numerous discussions about the book's subject matter , both read advanced drafts of the entire book and both provided numerous detailed and insightful comments which substantially improved the end product . I am also grateful ...
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... engage with the broader policy questions of how best to design , implement and enforce mine safety regulation . My ... engaged at every level with any or all of these issues . Neil Cunningham National Research Centre for Occupational ...
... engage with the broader policy questions of how best to design , implement and enforce mine safety regulation . My ... engaged at every level with any or all of these issues . Neil Cunningham National Research Centre for Occupational ...
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... engaged in . For , just as mainstream OHS legislation has largely bypassed the subject of mine safety , so too have academics and policy analysts steered clear of mine safety's complexities and idiosyncrasies ( see , for example ...
... engaged in . For , just as mainstream OHS legislation has largely bypassed the subject of mine safety , so too have academics and policy analysts steered clear of mine safety's complexities and idiosyncrasies ( see , for example ...
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... engage in a systemic approach to OHS at organisational level . The most distinctive feature of traditional mine safety regulation in New South Wales , Queensland and Western Australia , was that it relied very heavily upon the first of ...
... engage in a systemic approach to OHS at organisational level . The most distinctive feature of traditional mine safety regulation in New South Wales , Queensland and Western Australia , was that it relied very heavily upon the first of ...
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... engaged in sub- stantial regulatory reform such that the gap between mine - specific and mainstream OHS legislation was substantially narrowed . Although these reforms did not abolish mine - specific legislation , the new approach ...
... engaged in sub- stantial regulatory reform such that the gap between mine - specific and mainstream OHS legislation was substantially narrowed . Although these reforms did not abolish mine - specific legislation , the new approach ...
Contents
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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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