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Title: Breach of statutory duty and risk management in occupational health and safety law: New wine in old wineskins?
Author/Creator: Foster, Neil
Description: The tort action for breach of statutory duty has been used for many years in cases of workplace injury, disease or death, and is still being relied on. But in the workplace safety area the old regime of prescriptive regulation was replaced by a system of "general duty laws" and in recent years there has been a further move to the model of "risk management. Can the old wineskin survive the impact of the new wine? This article considers how the action has fared under successive changes in the workplace saftey legislative regime in the United Kingdom and in Australia.
Relation: The Tort Law Review Vol. 14, Issue 2, p. 79 - 104
Relation: http://www.thomson.com.au/catalogue/shopexd.asp?id=1247
Date: 2006
Publisher: Lawbook Co.
Keyword(s): workplace injury, Australia; workplace safety, Australia; general duty laws; risk management; workplace saftey legislation, Australia
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25954
Identifier: ISSN:1039-3285

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