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Volume 7, Issue 1
September 2008
(PDF 280KB / 17 pages)

Inside this issue:
Developments in regulation
International news
Key research and reports
Key cases
Other Developments

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Working papers

1. The Legal Framework for Regulating Road Transport Safety: Chains of Responsibility, Compliance and Enforcement
   (PDF: 316K / 17 pages)
   Richard Johnstone

2. Regulating Farm Safety: Towards an Optimal Policy Mix
   (PDF: 260K / 15 pages)
   Neil Gunningham

3. The Legal Concept of Work-Related Injury and Disease in Australian OHS and Workers’ Compensation Systems
   (PDF: 804K / 48 pages)
   Alan Clayton, Richard Johnstone and Sonya Sceats
   This paper has also been published as an article,
   (2002) 15(2) Australian Journal of Labour Law 105.
   
   

4. Regulatory Character and Regulatory Reform: Exploring the nexus between globalization and safety standards
   (PDF: 324K / 28 pages)
   Fiona Haines

5. The Prevention of Occupational Injuries and Illness: The Role of Economic Incentives
   (PDF: 444K / 27 pages)
   Alan Clayton

6. Safety, Courts and Crime
   (PDF: 628K / 33 pages)
   Richard Johnstone

7. Safety Culture, Mindfulness and Safe Behaviour: Converging ideas
   (PDF:168K / 15pages)
   Andrew Hopkins
   
   
8. OHS Implications of Agvet Chemical Regulation
   (PDF: 666K / 59pages)
   Patricia Healy and Neil Gunningham
   
   
9. Principle, Process, Performance or What? New Approaches to OHS Standards Setting
   (PDF: 643K / 42pages)
   Liz Bluff and Neil Gunningham
   
   
10. Workplace Arrangements for OHS in the 21st Century
    (PDF:267K / 29pages)
    David Walters
    
    
11. From Fiction to Fact - Rethinking OHS Enforcement
    (PDF:178K / 57pages)
    Richard Johnstone
    
    
12. Carrots and Sticks - Inspection Strategies in Denmark
    (PDF:82K / 12pages)
    Per Langaa Jensen and Jens Jensen
    
    
13. Thinking Laterally: Restorative and Responsive Regulation Of OHS
    (PDF:125K / 14pages)
    John Braithwaite
    
    
14. Organisational Development and OHS Management in Large Organisations
    (PDF:240K / 28pages)
    Kaj Frick
    
    
15. OHS in Small Organisations: Some Challenges and Ways Forward
    (PDF:285K / 32pages)
    David Walters and Felicity Lamm
    
    
16. Flexible Work and Organisational Arrangements - Regulatory Problems and Responses
    (PDF:195K / 21pages)
    Michael Quinlan
    
    
17. Regulating the Psychosocial Issues in Changing Work Situations
    (PDF:51K / 5pages)
    Christina Engman



18. Improving Occupational Health & Safety Policy through Intervention Research
    (PDF:107K/ 12 pages)
    Anthony D. LaMontangne
    
    
19. Regulating Safe Design and Planning of Construction Works
    (PDF:399K/ 36 pages)
    Liz Bluff
    
    
20. Systematic Management of Occupational Health and Safety
    (PDF:528K/ 66 pages)
    Liz Bluff
    
    
21. Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: The case of home-based clothing workers in Australia
    (PDF:209K/ 24 pages)
    Igor Nossar, Richard Johnstone and Michael Quinlan
    
    

22. Statutory OHS Workplace Arrangements for the Modern Labour Market (PDF:300K/35pages)
    Richard Johnstone, Michael Quinlan and David Walters
    
    

23. The Use of Infringement Notices in OHS Law Enforcement
    (PDF:464K/19pages)
    Liz Bluff
    
    

24. Regulatory Strategies for the Safe Design of Plant
    (PDF:292K/26pages)
    Liz Bluff
    
    
25. Quantitative Risk Assessment: A Critique
    (PDF:322K/25pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
26. Reflection On Reforms: Developing Criminal Accountability For Industrial Deaths
    (PDF:753K/96pages)
    Andy Hall, Richard Johnstone and Alexa Ridgway
    
    
27. The Relationship Between 'Reasonably Practicable' and
    Risk Management Regulation
    (PDF:499K/45pages)
    Liz Bluff and Richard Johnstone
    
    
28. A Responsive, Contextual and Networked Approach to
    Enforcing Safe Design of Plant
    (PDF:203K/26pages)
    Liz Bluff
    
    
29. Cotton, Health and Environment: A Case Study of Self-Regulation
    (PDF:404K/33pages)
    Neil Gunningham
    
    
30. Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental Regulation
    (PDF:228K/32pages)8k
    Neil Gunningham, Dorothy Thornton and Robert A. Kagan
    
    
31. Best practice Rail Safety Regulation
    (PDF:342K/24pages)
    Neil Gunningham
    
    
32. New Strategies for Safety Regulators: Beyond Compliance Monitoring
    (PDF:212K/17pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
33. Safety Regulation and Mining Inspectorate - Lessons from Western Australia
    (PDF:204K/15pages)
    Neil Gunningham
    
    
34. Regulating Occupational Health and Safety in the Labour Market
    (PDF:160K/20pages)
    Richard Johnstone
    
    
35. The missing link - regulating occupational health and safety support
    (PDF:491K/39pages)
    Liz Bluff
    
    
36. What are we to make of safe behaviour programs?
    (PDF:234K/16pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
37. Safety Case Regulation for the Mining Industry
    (PDF:383K/27pages)
    Andrew Hopkins and Peter Wilkinson
    
    
38. The OHS Regulatory Challenges Posed by Agency Workers: Evidence from Australia
    (PDF:2719K/33pages)
    Richard Johnstone and MIchael Quinlan
    
    
39. The Gretley Coal Mining Disaster: Reflections on the Finding that Mine Managers were to Blame
    (PDF:306K/30pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
40. An Evaluation of Certain Criticisms of the NSW OHS Act
    (PDF:176K/15pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
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41. Take Me to Your Employer: The Organisation Reach of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation
    (PDF:278K/37pages)
    Richard Johnstone and Therese Wilson
    
    
42. Evaluating Mine Safety Legislation in Queensland
    (PDF:187K/17pages)
    Neil Gunningham
    
    
43. A Corporate Dilemma:To be a Learning Organisation or to Minimise Liability
    (PDF:151K/13pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
44. Studying Organisational Cultures and their Effects on Safety
    (PDF:195K/18pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    To be available onlin
45. Is the Australian Mining Industry Ready for a Safety Case Regime?
    (PDF:185K/18pages)
    Kathryn Heiler
    
    
46. Safety, Security, Politics and Fact: Shaping the Regulatory Solution
    (PDF:159K/18pages)
    Fiona Haines
    
    
47. Safety Decision Making in High Hazard Organisations at the Production/Maintenance Interface - A Literature Review
    (PDF:336K/39pages)
    Jan Hayes
    
    
48. Holiding Corporate Leaders Responsible
    (PDF:159K/18pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
49. The Impact of the Gretley Prosecutions
    (PDF:153K/20pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
50. The CAMAC Report on Personal Liability for Corporate Fault – A Critique from the OHS perspective
    (PDF:95K/9pages)
    Neil Foster
    
    
51. The Problem of Defining High Reliability Organisations
    (PDF:113K/15pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    
52. Organisational Restructuring/Downsizing, OHS Regulation and Worker Health and Wellbeing
    (PDF:221K/31pages)
    Michael Quinlan
    
    
53. Thinking About Process Safety Indicators
    (PDF:232K/16pages)
    Andrew Hopkins



54. Factors Impinging on the Effectiveness of the Mines Inspectorate
    (PDF:221K/17pages)
    Neil Gunningham and Darren Sinclair
    
    
55. Multiple OHS Inspection Tools: Balancing Deterrence and Compliance in the Mining Sector
    (PDF:158K/18pages)
    Neil Gunningham and Darren Sinclair



56. Responsive OHS Regulation in the Mining Sector
    (PDF:150K/18pages)
    Neil Gunningham and Darren Sinclair
    
    
57. Identifying and Responding to Warnings: The Case of Australia's Air Traffic Control Organisation
    (PDF:184K/25pages)
    Andrew Hopkins
    
    

Research Publications

1. The research report Workplace Stress in Victoria - Developing a Systems Approach, funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) as part of its Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan 2005-2007 explores links between work stress and broader health outcomes. VicHealth commissioned a University of Melbourne team, led by Associate Professor Anthony LaMontagne (a member of NRCOHSR's regulation research consortium) with Amber Louie and Tessa Keegel (also a consortium member) and with co-investigators Andrea Shaw (a consortium member) and Canadian researcher Associate Professor Aleck Ostry to investigate the effectiveness of using a 'systems' rather than an 'individualistic'  approach to address work stress. The resulting report offers compelling evidence that job stress is a substantial contributor to the burden of mental illness, cardio-vascular disease and other physical and mental health problems. More importantly, the report also outlines ways forward to address these issues.


The full report and a summary of it can be downloaded from: http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/workplacestress


 

Previous seminar papers

1. Prescription to Process: Convergence and Divergence in Health and Safety Regulation in Europe
   (PDF: 224K / 11 pages)

2. Safety Cases: Success or Failure?
   (PDF: 216K / 11 pages)

3. Regulatory Character and Regulatory Reform: Exploring the nexus between globalization and safety standards
   (PDF: 324K / 28 pages)