Regulating Workplace Safety

Neil Gunningham is Professor of Law and Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at The 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, in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. In 1992 and 1996 he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

• 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

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