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The Centre for Corporate Accountability is a not-for-profit organisation concerned with the promotion of worker and public safety. It focuses on the role of state bodies in the enforcement of health and safety law and the investigation and prosecution of work-related deaths and injuries. It has charitable status. Centre for Corporate Accountability, 4th Floor, 197/199 City Road, London EC1V 1JN Tel: 020 7490 4494 Fax: 020 7490 7191 info@corporateaccountability.org www.corporateaccountability.org Registered Charity Number 1105658
Acknowledgments: Courtney Davis would like to thank David Bergman (CCA’s Director) and Professor Steve Tombs and Dr Dave Whyte, (CCA Board members) for commenting on various versions of this report. She would also like to thank Professors Neil Gunningham and Richard Johnstone (both from the National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, Australia) and Greenstreet Berman for their comments on an earlier draft of the report. The content of this published report is however entirely the responsibility of the Centre for Corporate Accountability. The Centre for Corporate Accountability would like to thank Unite for supporting the publication of this report ISBN No: 0-9548654-0-5 Funding for the research of this report has been provided by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Design and printing costs have been covered by the trade union Unite Irwin Mitchell has also provided some financial support for CCA’s distribution costs
Page 1: Making companies safe: What works?
Page 5 and 6: Contents INTRODUCTION 7 MAIN FINDIN
Page 7 and 8: So for example, the new Strategy do
Page 9 and 10: “In recent years, there had been
Page 11 and 12: Chapter eight is a short chapter lo
Page 13 and 14: • The only sector-specific data o
Page 16: PART ONE Legal Regulation v Volunta
Page 19 and 20: self-regulation through the adoptio
Page 21 and 22: • A number of studies evaluating
Page 23 and 24: Gap in the law Yet despite the impo
Page 25 and 26: By September 2002 the Government ha
Page 27 and 28: Conclusion In conclusion, the Green
Page 29 and 30: effectiveness of safety representat
Page 32 and 33: Chapter Four Conclusion There is ve
Page 34: PARTS TWO & THREE Strategies to sec
Page 37 and 38: A recent HSE discussion paper illus
Page 40 and 41: Chapter Five The Health and Safety
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Page 46 and 47: perceived low level of current fine
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Select Committee on Work and Pensio
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The evidence reviewed in part two s
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health risk management between “a
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The relationship between knowledge
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Conclusion Whatever factors prompt
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16 This was at an aggregate level.
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- the year that the initiative was
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When safety does not pay (or does n
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Similarly, firms might make an econ
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However, even in the context of mul
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does, exert a negative influence on
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to cost “a little” or “nothin
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For instance, when BP Grangemouth r
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Chapter Ten ‘Earned Autonomy’ T
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A similar experiment in self-regula
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Whilst the original focus of TQM wa
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“the more firms incorporate ethic
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“In Norway the mandated model is
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odies, pressure groups and/or the m
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Health and Safety Management System
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Gunningham and Johnstone argue that
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Conclusion Proposals that some comp
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PART FOUR Conclusion 103
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Chapter Eleven Conclusion The Healt
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Appendix Select Committee on Work a
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References Alder A., Tipping A. and
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Health and Well-Being’, in Frick
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Honey S., Hillage J. et al. (1997)
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Nichols T. and Armstrong P. (1973)
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Wokutch R.E. and VanSandt C.V. (200
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