Regulating Workplace Safety: System and Sanctions

by Neil Gunningham, Richard Johnstone

Overview

This book addresses the question: how can law influence the internal self-regulation of organizations in order to make them more responsive to occupational health and safety concerns? It argues for a two track system of regulation under which enterprises are offered a choice between a continuation of traditional forms of regulation and the adoption of a safety management system-based approach on the other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198268246
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/23/1999
Series:	Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1790L (what's this?)

About the Author

Neil Gunningham is Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, Australian National University, Canberra. In 1997 he was Visiting and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He was previously a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago.

Richard Johnstone is Associate Professor at the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne. In 1992 and 1996 he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Table of abbreviations
Introduction
From compliance to best practice in OHS: The roles of specification, performance and systems-based standards
Towards a systems-based approach: Voluntarism, legislation or incentives?
Two paths to enlightenment: A two-track approach to regulation
From adversarialism to partnership: Track two regulation
The top of the enforcement pyramid: rethinking the place of criminal sanctions in OHS regulation
Bigger sticks: Tougher and more flexible sanctions for OHS offenders
Conclusion
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index