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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... improved the end product . I am also grateful to Neil Foster and Andrew Hopkins who provided valuable critiques of portions of the book , to Liz Bluff for handling the administration and broader activities of the National Research ...
... improved the end product . I am also grateful to Neil Foster and Andrew Hopkins who provided valuable critiques of portions of the book , to Liz Bluff for handling the administration and broader activities of the National Research ...
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... improved dramatically . The FIFR ( the number of fatalities per million hours worked ) for the period 2001-02 to 2005-06 was 0.04 , down 78 per cent on the previous five year average of 0.18 ( DPI 2006a , 2 ) . At the same time , the ...
... improved dramatically . The FIFR ( the number of fatalities per million hours worked ) for the period 2001-02 to 2005-06 was 0.04 , down 78 per cent on the previous five year average of 0.18 ( DPI 2006a , 2 ) . At the same time , the ...
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... improving their OHS performance , setting themselves ambitious targets such as zero tolerance for work related ... improvements in 10 years is the extent to which very senior managers , including chief executives , have realized that ...
... improving their OHS performance , setting themselves ambitious targets such as zero tolerance for work related ... improvements in 10 years is the extent to which very senior managers , including chief executives , have realized that ...
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... improved perfor- mance , whether in respect of OHS ( Wright 1998 ) or the closely related area of environment protection ( Rappaport & Flaherty 1991 ; KPMG 1996 ) is regulation . One relatively recent study of corporate regulation found ...
... improved perfor- mance , whether in respect of OHS ( Wright 1998 ) or the closely related area of environment protection ( Rappaport & Flaherty 1991 ; KPMG 1996 ) is regulation . One relatively recent study of corporate regulation found ...
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... improvements which are achievable , and a lack of appreciation of the value to be had in increasing individual safety awareness and skills , are all part of the mix of factors influencing individual behaviour ... as well , there are ...
... improvements which are achievable , and a lack of appreciation of the value to be had in increasing individual safety awareness and skills , are all part of the mix of factors influencing individual behaviour ... as well , there are ...
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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