Safe design project : review of occupational health and safety legal requirements for designers, manufacturers, suppliers, importers and other relevant obligation bearers / Neil Gunningham, Richard Johnstone, Patricia Burritt
- Bib ID:
- 318662
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gunningham, Neil, 1950-
- Description:
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- Canberra, A.C.T. : National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, 2000
- xvi, 68 p. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642421994
- Summary:
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This report on OHS legal requirements focuses on three main types of legal requirements. First, it considers legislation: the mechanism that outlines the broad parameters that obligation bearers must follow. Second, it considers regulations that flesh out the general legislative duties and sets out detailed requirements placed upon obligation bearers. Finally, it examines the relevant case law, the judicial decisions that clarify and resolve the inevitable ambiguities in both legislation and regulations, and which interpret judicially, key phrases in these legal instruments. There is much to be learned from the experience of other countries, and those whose legal systems approximate to our own have by far the most to tell us. Consequently, for this Report, research on and findings about the international dimension has focused on the UK provisions because these resonate closely with those in Australia and reflect recent directives in the European Union, the European Union Directives because these represent crucial and up-to-date thinking within the European Community as a whole and, to a much lesser extent, selected North American provisions.nal cooperative
- Full contents:
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- Part I. Introduction
- Aspects of legal requirements examined
- A life cycle notion of different obligation bearers
- Methodology
- pt. II. The current regime
- Who are the obligation bearers?
- Design sectors
- Responsibilities of designers, manufacturers, suppliers and importers under the OHS Statutes and Regulations
- The concepts of 'reasonably practicable' and 'Practicable'
- 'Designed in' safety - zero incidents
- The critique of 'when properly used'
- Contractors and sub-contractors and franchisors
- Problems with current requirements for plant and substances
- Problems with current requirements for buildings and structures
- Civil liability
- Strict liability
- Overview of legislation and regulation obligations in comparable overseas jurisdictions
- pt. III. Conclusion - evaluation, trends and strategies
- Recent trends and initiatives in the jurisdictions
- The role of process-based standards
- Expanding the range of duty holders and design sectors
- Enforcement and statutory terminology.up-to-date th
- Notes:
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- "A report prepared for the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission."
- "March 2000"
- "Sharing practical solutions to OHS problems" -- Cover.
- Bibliography: p. 66-68.
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