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Author Johnstone, Richard, 1957- author

Title Work health and safety law and policy / Richard Johnstone, BBusSci (Hons) (Cape Town); LLB (Hons), PhD (Melb) Professor, Griffith Law School, Regulatory Institutiom, Griffith University, Adjunct Professor, National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Honorary Professor, Work and Health Research Team, The University of Sydney Associate, Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne ; Elizabeth Bluff, BSc(Hons) (Adelaide); MAppSci (OHS) (Ballarat), PhD (Griffith) Research Fellow, National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University ; Alan Clayton, BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Melb) Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University Associate, National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University Associate, Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne, Honorary Senior Scientist, Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, VIOSH Australia, University of Ballarat
Edition Third edition
Published Rozelle, N.S.W. : Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia, 2012
Pyrmont, New South Wales : Lawbook Company : Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited, [2012]
©2012

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Description xc, 975 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Work health and safety in Australia: an overview -- 2. The historical development of the law regulating work-related injury, disease and death -- 3. The harmonisation of Australian work health and safety regulation: framework, key concepts and institutions -- 4. Standard setting: the general duty of a person conducting a business or undertaking -- 5. Standard setting: the other general duties -- 6. Standard setting: regulations, codes of practice and other standards -- 7. Work health and safety, industrial realations, and workers' participation and rights -- 8. State enforcement of work health and safety statutory standards -- 9. Common law compensation for work-related injury, disease and death -- 10. Workers' compensation -- 11. Rehabilitation and return to work
Summary The third edition of Work Health and Safety Law and Policy continues to provide a plain English approach to explaining and analysing the law which regulates work health and safety in Australia. Providing broad coverage, this book focuses on the role that legal regulation plays in preventing work-related injury and disease, as well as the way in which the law contributes to rehabilitating and compensating injured and ill workers
Analysis Australian
Industrial Law
Occupational health & safety
Textbooks/coursework
Notes Previous edition published as: Occupational health and safety law and policy : texts and materials / Richard Johnstone. Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook Co., 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Industrial accidents -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Industrial accidents -- Australia.
Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Cases.
Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Cases.
Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Author Bluff, Elizabeth, author
Clayton, Alan, author
LC no. 2012427249
ISBN 9780455229836 (paperback)
Other Titles Occupational health and safety law and policy : texts and materials