Michael Garry Quinlan

Professor
School of Organisation and Management, The University of New South Wales
Visiting Professor, Work and Health Research Team, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
Adjunct Professor, Business School, Middlesex University

Education

Professor Quinlan and has a PhD and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney.

Research Interests

Professor Quinlan has been researching regulatory aspects of employment, especially OHS, for over 30 years. He has particular interests in precarious employment, immigrant, foreign and vulnerable workers and labour history. In 2000–01 he undertook an inquiry for the Motor Accidents Authority of New South Wales into safety in the long haul trucking industry. In 2001-03 he conducted research exploring the OHS effects of precarious employment (with Philip Bohle, Ann Williamson and David Kennedy). In 2001-02 he conducted research commissioned by WorkCover New South Wales on developing strategies to address OHS and workers’ compensation responsibilities arising from changing employment relationships. His ongoing research includes an investigation of the OHS regulatory implications of precarious employment (with Richard Johnstone), and research assessing policy and practice in the move to process standards in OHS in four countries (with Richard Johnstone, Kaj Frick, David Walters and Per Langaa Jensen).

Other OHS Regulatory Experience

Professor Quinlan has served on a number of government bodies providing advice on OHS policy and regulatory issues and prepared reports and submissions to numerous government inquiries in regulatory aspects of employment. These include:

Review of Comcare Scheme and Self-insurers, report prepared for the federal Department of Work and Employment Relations (DEWR) for review commissioned by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, May 2008 (with Martin Fry and Richard Johnstone).
Submission on OHS to DEEWR review of s457 visa scheme, 9 July 2008
Appointed to assist National Transport Commission investigation into safer payment systems for heavy vehicle drivers, July 2008.
Report on OHS effects of changes at work, prepared for NOHSAC (New Zealand), June 2008 (with Philip Bohle and members of Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney).
OHS Expert assisting Independent Investigation into Rockfall at Beaconsfield Mine, Tasmania on Anzac Day 2006 (appointed WST inspector), 2006-7. (Authored 422 page expert report report on OHS management at the Beaconsfield Joint Venture Gold Mine, for Greg Melick SC, Independent Investigator appointed by the Tasmanian Government), August 2007.
Member, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network of World Health Organisation Social Determinants of Health Commission, 2006-7
Submission to Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee inquiry into the practicality and value of seasonal contract labour, December 2005.
Expert panel member, NSW Mine Safety Review, 2004-5
Submitted affidavit, expert witness statements and gave testimony on OHS effects of contingent work to test case on casual employment, NSW Industrial Relations Commission, No.IRC 4330 of 2003, December 2003, February and May 2004.
Gave evidence to Victorian Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into Labour Hire Employment in Victoria, 21 June 2004.
Gave formal evidence to Family and Community Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria Inquiry into the conditions of clothing outworkers in Victoria, 15 July 2002.
Reported to WorkCover NSW on developing strategies to address OHS and workers’ compensation responsibilities arising from changing employment relationships, 2002.
Submitted formal written opinion to Health Employee Associations Charter Case Challenge, British Columbia, 2002.
Member, Taskforce on the Prevention and Management of Violence in the Health Workplace, NSW Department of Health, 2000-2002.
Member, WorkCover NSW Year 2000 OHS Best Practice Committee, 1997-2000.
Member of NOHSC Research Advisory Panel, 1997-2000.

Selected Publications (by date, since 2000)

P Bohle, M Quinlan and A Williamson, “Short trips – long days: health and safety in short-haul trucking”, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, forthcoming.

M Quinlan and S Toh, “Protecting a new class of guestworker: the occupational health and safety rights and entitlements of s 457 visa holders in Australia” International Journal of Manpower, forthcoming.

P Bohle and M Quinlan, “Over-stretched and unreciprocated commitment: reviewing research on the OHS effects of downsizing and job insecurity,” International Journal of Health Services, forthcoming.

M Quinlan and G Anderson, “ Regulating work arrangements in Australia and New Zealand 1788-2006,” Labour History, forthcoming.

M Quinlan, “Outsourcing” in Australian Master OHS and Environment Guide 2007, CCH Australia, North Ryde, 337-351.

M Quinlan and P Bohle, “Under pressure, out of control or home alone? Reviewing research and policy debates on the OHS effects of outsourcing and home-based work,” (2007) International Journal of Health Services 38(3): 489-525.

R Johnstone, M Quinlan et al, “Regulating supply chains for safety and health”, (2007) Industrial Law Journal 36(2): 163-187.

M Quinlan, “Organisational restructuring/downsizing, OHS regulation and worker health and wellbeing” (2007) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 30:385-399.

M Quinlan et al, “Supply chain regulation to protect the occupational health and safety of vulnerable workers” (2007) Revista Braziliera de Saude Occupational, 32(115): 157-164 (article in Portuguese).

M Quinlan and C Mayhew, “Economic pressure, multi-tiered subcontracting and occupational health and safety in the Australian long haul trucking industry” (2006) Employee Relations 28(3): 212-229.

R Johnstone and M Quinlan, “The OHS regulatory challenges of agency labour: evidence from Australia” (2006) Employee Relations 28(3): 273-289.

M Quinlan et al, “Empirical study of employment arrangements and precariousness in Australia” (2006) Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations 61(3): 465-489.

M Quinlan, “Contextual factors shaping the purpose of labour law: A comparative historical perspective” in C Arup et al (eds) Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, 21-42.

R Johnstone, M Quinlan and C Mayhew, “Trucking tragedies: the hidden disaster of mass death in the long haul road transport industry” in E Tucker (ed), Working Disasters, Baywood, New York, 2006, 19-64.

M Quinlan,“The hidden epidemic of injuries and illness associated with the global expansion of precarious employment” in C Mayhew and C Peterson, C (eds) Occupational Health and Safety: International Influences and the New Epidemics, Baywood, New York, 2005, 53-74.

R Johnstone, M Quinlan and D Walters, “Statutory OHS workplace arrangements for the modern labour market” (2005) Journal of Industrial Relations 47(1): 93-116

M Quinlan and R Guthrie, “The occupational health and safety rights and workers compensation entitlements of illegal immigrants: an emerging challenge” (2005) Policy and Practice in Safety and Health 3(2): 69-89.

C Mayhew, M Quinlan et al, "Measuring the extent of impact from occupational violence and bullying on traumatized workers"(2004) Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, special issue on the traumatised worker.

R Johnstone, I Nossar and M Quinlan, “Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: the case of home-based clothing workers in Australia” (2004) Australian Journal of Labour Law 17(2): 1-24.

M Quinlan and P O Saksvik, "Regulating systematic occupational health and safety management: comparing the Norwegian and Australian experience" (2003) Relations Industrielles, 58(1): 81-107.

M Quinlan and C Mayhew, “Fordism in the fast food industry: pervasive management control and occupational health and safety risks for young temporary workers”, (2002) Sociology of Health and Illness, 24(3):261-84.

M Quinlan, Report of Inquiry into Safety in the Long Haul Trucking Industry , Motor Accidents Authority of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001.

P Bohle, C Mayhew and M Quinlan, “The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganisation and occupational health: a review of recent research” (2001) International Journal of Health Services 31(2):335-414.

P Bohle, C Mayhew and M Quinlan, “The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganisation and occupational health: placing the debate in a comparative historical context” (2001) International Journal of Health Services, 31(3):507-536.

P Bohle, C Mayhew and M Quinlan, “The health and safety effects of job insecurity: an evaluation of the evidence” (2001) Economic and Labour Relations Review 12(1):32-60.

C Mayhew and M Quinlan, “Occupational violence in the long distance transport industry: a case study of 300 truck drivers” (2001) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 13(1):36-46.

M Quinlan and P Bohle, Managing Occupational Health and Safety: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2000.

K Frick, PL Jensen, M Quinlan and Ton Wilthagen (eds), Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management: Perspectives on an International Development, Pergamon Science, Oxford, 2000.

M Quinlan, “Forget evidence: the demise of research involvement by NOHSC since 1996” (2000) Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand 16(3):213-227.

M Quinlan and C Mayhew, “The relationship between precarious employment and patterns of occupational violence: survey evidence from seven occupations” in K Isaksson et al, Health Effects of the New Labour Market, Kluwer/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000, 183-205.