Managing Mining Hazards (Paperback)

Neil Gunningham

ISBN 10: 1862878889 / ISBN 13: 9781862878884

Editore: Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2012

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Paperback. Over the last 15 years the coal mining industry has achieved impressive gains in its work health and safety (WHS) performance. These are widely attributed to the development of a new WHS architecture based on structured risk management concepts and WHS management systems.\nRegulators too have sought to harness this approach in the development of a new form of management based regulation which holds out the promise of regulating at a distance in a manner that is resource efficient while at the same time promising better WHS outcomes than more prescriptive alternatives.\nHowever, the coal mining industry has been unable to sustain its impressive injury/fatality reduction trajectory and individual companies have been unable to apply their WHS architecture successfully across the entirety of their operations. These findings raise important questions for WHS.\nBased on over 150 interviews mining industry stakeholders and on in depth access to multiple mine sites within individual companies, the authors conclude that corporate systems and other tools of management-based regulation only work well when WHS is institutionalised, and when it gets into the bloodstream of the organisation at site level. Only when the formal systems (audits, reporting, monitoring) are supported by informal systems (trust, commitment, engagement) will they be fully effective.\nThese findings and policy prescriptions are relevant not just to mining and WHS but to the multiple areas of social regulation where a systems-based approach has become an article of faith for companies and regulators alike. Based on over 150 interviews mining industry stakeholders and on in depth access to multiple mine sites within individual companies, the authors conclude that corporate systems and other tools of management-based regulation only work well when WHS is institutionalised, and when it gets into the "bloodstream" of the organisation at site level. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Managing Mining Hazards (Paperback)
• Editore: Federation Press, Annandale, NSW
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1862878889
• ISBN 13: 9781862878884
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Over the last 15 years the coal mining industry has achieved impressive gains in its work health and safety (WHS) performance. These are widely attributed to the development of a new WHS architecture based on structured risk management concepts and WHS management systems.

Regulators too have sought to harness this approach in the development of a new form of “management based regulation” which holds out the promise of “regulating at a distance” in a manner that is resource efficient while at the same time promising better WHS outcomes than more prescriptive alternatives.

However, the coal mining industry has been unable to sustain its impressive injury/fatality reduction trajectory and individual companies have been unable to apply their WHS architecture successfully across the entirety of their operations. These findings raise important questions for WHS.

Based on over 150 interviews mining industry stakeholders and on in depth access to multiple mine sites within individual companies, the authors conclude that corporate systems and other tools of management-based regulation only work well when WHS is institutionalised, and when it gets into the “bloodstream” of the organisation at site level. Only when the formal systems (audits, reporting, monitoring) are supported by informal systems (trust, commitment, engagement) will they be fully effective.

These findings and policy prescriptions are relevant not just to mining and WHS but to the multiple areas of social regulation where a systems-based approach has become an article of faith for companies and regulators alike.

Contenuti

1. Introduction  2. The corporate architecture of work health and safety  3. Explaining variation in work health and safety performance  4. A cluster of mistrust  5. Building trust  6. Regulatory style, trust and effective enforcement  7. Being a good inspector  8. Conclusion: Mistrust and the limits of management-based regulation