Regulation and Risk - Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways
Hutter, Bridget M.
This book provides industry professionals and regulatory agencies with an in-depth empirical study of how British Railways responded to occupational health and safety legislation. Regulating risks in modern societies increasingly involves governments guiding and co-opting corporate risk management systems. This book examines the feasibility of this with reference to occupational health and safety on Britain's railways. It raises important questions about how workplace risks are managed and what influence the law can have in this. These issues are especially significant in the wake of major rail disasters and in the face of the increasing popularity of risk-based approaches to corporate governance.
Content:
Front Matter
List of Figures
List of Charts
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Statutes
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction: Setting the Scene Introduction
1. Concepts and Orientations
Part I. The Railway Industry: Regulation and Risk 2. The Railway Industry in Britain
3. The Railway Industry and Risk
Part II. Regulatory Objectives 4. The Law: Regulatory Objectives and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
5. The Railway Inspectorate: Regulatory Objectives and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
Part III. The Impact of Regulation: The Management of Risk 6. Industry Enforced Self-Regulation
7. Participative Regulation?
8. The Communication of Risk: Information about Health and Safety
Part IV. Constitutive Regulation? Risk and Compliance 9. Understandings of Risk and Uncertainty
10. Risk-Taking and Compliance
Part V. Postscript 11. Privatization and the Safety Cascade
Part VI. Conclusion 12. Constituting and Controlling Risk Management: The Regulation of Economic Life
Appendices
References
Index
Content:
Front Matter
List of Figures
List of Charts
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Statutes
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction: Setting the Scene Introduction
1. Concepts and Orientations
Part I. The Railway Industry: Regulation and Risk 2. The Railway Industry in Britain
3. The Railway Industry and Risk
Part II. Regulatory Objectives 4. The Law: Regulatory Objectives and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
5. The Railway Inspectorate: Regulatory Objectives and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
Part III. The Impact of Regulation: The Management of Risk 6. Industry Enforced Self-Regulation
7. Participative Regulation?
8. The Communication of Risk: Information about Health and Safety
Part IV. Constitutive Regulation? Risk and Compliance 9. Understandings of Risk and Uncertainty
10. Risk-Taking and Compliance
Part V. Postscript 11. Privatization and the Safety Cascade
Part VI. Conclusion 12. Constituting and Controlling Risk Management: The Regulation of Economic Life
Appendices
References
Index
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2001
Εκδότης:
Oxford University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
386
ISBN 10:
1936058146
ISBN 13:
9781936058143
Αρχείο:
PDF, 20.68 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001