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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... Principles and Process Towards a Safety Case Approach ? Evaluating the Safety Case Model 71 Introducing a Safety Case : Towards a Phased Approach Regulating Less Sophisticated Organisations 88_ tbE88 62 62 64 67 80 82 Designing ...
... Principles and Process Towards a Safety Case Approach ? Evaluating the Safety Case Model 71 Introducing a Safety Case : Towards a Phased Approach Regulating Less Sophisticated Organisations 88_ tbE88 62 62 64 67 80 82 Designing ...
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... principle , from an examination of mine safety legislation in Victoria , South Australia , Tasmania and the Northern Territory that cannot be gleaned from an analysis of legislation in the principal mining States . New South Wales and ...
... principle , from an examination of mine safety legislation in Victoria , South Australia , Tasmania and the Northern Territory that cannot be gleaned from an analysis of legislation in the principal mining States . New South Wales and ...
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... principles ( broadly in line with the provisions of International Labour Organi- zation Convention 176 Concerning Safety and Health in Mines 1995 ) . Unsurprisingly in the light of the above , New South Wales , Queens- land and Victoria ...
... principles ( broadly in line with the provisions of International Labour Organi- zation Convention 176 Concerning Safety and Health in Mines 1995 ) . Unsurprisingly in the light of the above , New South Wales , Queens- land and Victoria ...
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... principles which duty - holders must follow , such as ensuring health and safety as far as practicable , leaving it to the discretion of the duty - holder how they achieve those principles or goals . A performance standard specifies the ...
... principles which duty - holders must follow , such as ensuring health and safety as far as practicable , leaving it to the discretion of the duty - holder how they achieve those principles or goals . A performance standard specifies the ...
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... principles established in the 19th century . Indeed it has been pointed out that some of the wording dates directly from that time ( Billing- ham 2000 ) . In consequence , the Act and regulations made under it failed explicitly to ...
... principles established in the 19th century . Indeed it has been pointed out that some of the wording dates directly from that time ( Billing- ham 2000 ) . In consequence , the Act and regulations made under it failed explicitly to ...
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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