A fully updated new edition of Michael Tooma's ground-breaking integrated approach to the law and practice of workplace health, safety, security and environment management. Tooma identifies a common grounding in risk management and similar legislative treatment of regulation in these areas across State and federal jurisdictions.


New content includes:




Discussion of the Model OHS Laws
Discussion of the international context to OHS laws and comparative analysis of OHS law in selected jurisdictions including the USA, UK, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand
Nanotechnology
Case studies including the Texas BP Refinery explosion, the Waterfall train disaster, the Cross City Tunnel fatality and a discussion of the High Court's Kirk decision.