Managing mining hazards : regulation, safety and trust / Neil Gunningham, Darren Sinclair.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The corporate architecture of work health and safety -- The evolution of WHS architectures -- Agenda setting -- Systems, standards, rules and procedures -- Core arrangements: WHS risk management, investigation, major hazards and worker participation -- Changing behaviour and developing a positive safety culture -- Monitoring, auditing and accountability -- Centralisation and the provision of resources -- Explaining convergence -- Evaluating corporate WHS architecture -- Stalled progress? Understanding the limitations of systems -- Conclusion -- Developing strategic initiatives -- Communication with workers and safety representatives -- Beyond compliance -- A case study of the Mines Inspectorate in Western Australia -- Inculcating competencies -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Mistrust and the limits of management based regulation -- Introduction -- Management -based regulation: 'What the literature tells us -- Management-based regulation and its consequences -- Minerals Inc: Corporate interventionists -- The presence of mistrust -- Deputy under-manager reluctance or inability -- Middle management inertia -- Coal Company: Reluctant converts -- Mistrust and management-based regulation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- lndex.

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