The authors confront the challenges facing OHS regulators and stakeholders in a new and different world dominated by service industries and globalisation rather than manufacturing industries and protection. They explore new models of OHS regulation that take account of gaps and deficiencies in the current arrangements.
The authors bring international expertise from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and Australia. They focus on the kinds of regulatory strategies, including both OHS law and enforcement policy, that are most likely to produce good OHS outcomes in this changing world of work.
Particular topics examined are:
- the type, mix, content, and coverage of OHS standards, systematic OHS management and the development of organisational capability,
- strategies for effective worker participation and representation,
- models for achieving small business compliance,
- regulatory responses to changes in work organisation, responsive enforcement and adapted inspection, and restorative justice.
CHAPTER 1: Principle, process, performance or what? New approaches to OHS standards setting - Elizabeth Bluff and Neil Gunningham
CHAPTER 2: Organisational development for occupational health and safety management - Kaj Frick
CHAPTER 3: Workplace arrangements for health and safety at work in the twenty-first century - David Walters
CHAPTER 4: Regulating occupational health and safety in small businesses: Some challenges and some ways forward - Felicity Lamm and David Walters
CHAPTER 5: Regulating flexible work and organisational arrangements - Michael Quinlan
CHAPTER 6: From fiction to fact: Rethinking OHS enforcement - Richard Johnstone
CHAPTER 7: Developing inspection strategies to support local activities - Per Langaa Jensen and Jens Jensen
CHAPTER 8: Thinking laterally: Restorative and responsive regulation of OHS - John Braithwaite