Regulation and Risk - Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways

This book provides industry professionals and regulatory agencies with an in-depth empirical study of how British Railways responded to occupational health and safety legislation. Regulating risks in modern societies increasingly involves governments guiding and co-opting corporate risk management systems. This book examines the feasibility of this with reference to occupational health and safety on Britain's railways. It raises important questions about how workplace risks are managed and what influence the law can have in this. These issues are especially significant in the wake of major rail disasters and in the face of the increasing popularity of risk-based approaches to corporate governance.
Content:
Front Matter
• List of Figures
• List of Charts
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Statutes
• Preface
• Table of Contents
•Introduction: Setting the Scene Introduction
1. Concepts and Orientations
•Part I. The Railway Industry: Regulation and Risk 2. The Railway Industry in Britain
3. The Railway Industry and Risk
•Part II. Regulatory Objectives 4. The Law: Regulatory Objectives and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
5. The Railway Inspectorate: Regulatory Objectives and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
•Part III. The Impact of Regulation: The Management of Risk 6. Industry Enforced Self-Regulation
7. Participative Regulation?
8. The Communication of Risk: Information about Health and Safety
•Part IV. Constitutive Regulation? Risk and Compliance 9. Understandings of Risk and Uncertainty
10. Risk-Taking and Compliance
•Part V. Postscript 11. Privatization and the Safety Cascade
•Part VI. Conclusion 12. Constituting and Controlling Risk Management: The Regulation of Economic Life
Appendices
• References
Index