Making Safety Work Getting management commitment to occupational health and safety
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1.Whose responsibility?; 2. Regulation versus economic incentives; 3. Employer responses to compensation pressures; 4. Beyond the reach of compensation: the need for regulation; 5. Other ‘safety pays’ arguments; 6. Regulations and regulators; 7. Prosecuting for workplace death and injury; 8. Workers and their unions; 9. The irrelevance of compensation costs: the case of the construction industry; 10. Does safety pay: the case of coal mining; 11. Strategies for safety specialists; 12. Strategies for governments and OHS authorities; 13. Concluding comments