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Author Tilindyté, Laura, 1982-

Title Enforcing health and safety regulation : a comparative economic approach / [Laura Tilindyté]
Published Cambridge : Intersentia ; [Maastricht] : Metro, 2012

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Description xviii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Ius Commune Europaeum ; 108
Ius commune europaeum ; 108
Contents Contents note continued: 1.2.1.Occupational Safety and Health Convention 1981 -- 1.2.2.Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention 2006 -- 1.3.Implementing International Labour Standards -- 2.EU Law and Policy -- 2.1.Community Strategy on Health and Safety at Work 2007-2012 -- 2.2.The Framework Directive 89/391 on Health and Safety at Work -- 2.3.The EU 'Enforcement Debate' -- 2.4.Senior Labour Inspectors Committee and Common Principles of Labour Inspection and other Initiatives -- 2.5.Conclusions -- 1.The Health and Safety System in Great Britain -- 1.1.Institutional Framework -- 1.2.Legal Framework: Main Health and Safety Provisions -- 1.2.1.Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 -- 1.2.2.Regulations and Approved Codes of Practice -- 1.2.3.Health and Safety Offences -- 1.3.Principles of Enforcement: Enforcement Policy Statement -- 1.4.Political Climate -- 1.5.Health and Safety in View of Better Regulation -- 2.Monitoring and Inspection --
Contents note continued: 2.1.Developments in Inspection -- 2.1.1.Staff Numbers -- 2.1.2.Frequency of Inspections -- 2.2.Reactive Inspection -- 2.2.1.Complaints Investigation -- 2.2.2.Incident Investigation and Work-related Deaths -- 2.2.3.Reporting and Under-reporting Health and Safety Incidents under RIDDOR -- 2.3.Proactive Inspection and Targeting -- 2.3.1.Risk Assessment -- 2.3.2.Inspection Rating -- 3.Post-detection Discretion and Informal Enforcement -- 3.1.Legal Limits of Administrative Discretion -- 3.2.The Enforcement Management Model -- 3.3.Consistency, Transparency, Accountability -- 3.4.Informal Enforcement: The Role of Advice and Guidance -- 3.5.The 'Enforcement Pyramid' -- 4.Improvement and Prohibition Notices -- 4.1.Improvement Notices -- 4.2.Prohibition Notices -- 4.3.HSE Notice Activity -- 4.4.Public Registers of Enforcement Notices -- 4.5.Appeals against Enforcement Notices -- 5.Prosecution -- 5.1.Prosecution Activity -- 5.2.Decision to Prosecute --
Contents note continued: 2.2.'Law and Economics' of Post-detection Discretion -- 2.3.Discretionary Enforcement: A Critique -- 2.4.Interim Conclusion -- 3.Sanctioning OHS Violations -- 3.1.Formal and Informal Sanctions -- 3.2.Administrative Costs -- 3.3.Enforcement Notices -- 3.3.1.Improvement Notices -- 3.3.2.Prohibition Notices -- 3.4.Administrative Financial Penalties -- 3.5.Criminal Sanctions -- 3.5.1.Criminalization, Over-criminalization or Under-criminalization? -- 3.5.2.Why Criminal Law? -- 3.5.3.Criminal Sanctions for OHS Offences -- 3.5.4.Limitations of Fines -- 3.5.5.Imprisonment -- 3.6.Alternative and Complementary Sanctions -- 3.6.1.Adverse Publicity: Naming and Shaming -- 3.6.2.Removal of Illegal Gain -- 3.6.3.Other Sanctions -- 3.7.License Suspension and Revocation -- 3.8.Interim Conclusion -- 1.The ILO Conventions and Recommendations -- 1.1.The ILO Labour Inspection Convention 1947 -- 1.2.Occupational Safety and Health Conventions --
Contents note continued: 2.2.Reactive Inspection: Complaints Investigation -- 2.3.Proactive Inspection and Targeting -- 3.Post-detection Discretion and Informal Enforcement -- 3.1.The Regulators' Toolkits: The English and German 'Enforcement Pyramids' -- 3.2.Structuring Discretion in England and Wales: The Enforcement Management Model -- 3.3.Structuring Discretion in Germany -- 3.4.Law as 'Last Resort' -- 3.5.Advice and Guidance -- 4.Formal Enforcement and Sanctions -- 4.1.Improvement and Prohibition Notices -- 4.1.1.Penalty Payment: Zwangsgeld in Germany -- 4.1.2.Public Registers in England and Wales -- 4.1.3.Appeals -- 4.1.4.Noncompliance with a Notice -- 4.2.Administrative or Criminal Penalties? -- 4.2.1.Health and Safety Offences in England and Wales -- 4.2.2.Health and Safety Offences in Germany -- 4.2.3.Administrative (Civil) Penalties in England and Wales -- 4.2.4.Reflection in View of Cost-effectiveness -- 4.3.Sentencing in England and Wales --
Contents note continued: 3.1.Legal Limits of Administrative Discretion -- 3.2.Review of Administrative Authorities' Decisions -- 3.3.The Duty to Advise and the Role of Informal Enforcement -- 3.4.Explaining Informal Enforcement -- 3.5.Consistency, Transparency, Accountability -- 3.6.The German Enforcement Pyramid -- 4.Improvement and Prohibition Notices -- 4.1.General -- 4.2.Penalty Payment -- 4.3.Notice Activity -- 4.4.Appeals against a Notice -- 5.Administrative Financial Penalties -- 5.1.The Administrative Offences Act 1968 -- 5.2.Administrative OHS Offences -- 5.3.The Size of Administrative Penalties -- 5.4.Administrative Penalties in Practice -- 6.Criminal Offences and Criminal Complaints -- 7.License Suspension or Revocation -- 8.Summary -- 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Cost-effective Enforcement: Some Methodological Remarks -- 1.2.The Enforcement Framework: Legal Provisions and OHS Organization -- 2.Inspection and Monitoring -- 2.1.General Developments in Inspection --
Contents note continued: 4.4.License Suspension and Revocation -- 4.5.Law and Economics Revisited -- 1.The Limits of Reactive Inspection and the Value of a Proactive Approach -- 2.Law as 'Last Resort' -- 3.'Structuring' Discretion -- 4.Is there Scope for Administrative Penalties in Health and Safety Enforcement? -- 5.The Role of Criminal Liability and Sanctions -- 6.Questions for Further Research -- 7.Final Reflections: Deterrence Revisited
Contents note continued: 5.3.Criminal Procedure -- 6.Sentencing -- 6.1.Fines -- 6.2.Individual Responsibility -- 6.3.Complementary Sanctions and Orders -- 6.4.HSE Post-court Action and Publicity -- 7.The Discussion on Administrative Financial Penalties -- 8.Summary -- 1.The Health and Safety System in the Federal Republic of Germany -- 1.1.Federalism and Dualism -- 1.2.Occupational Health and Safety Act 1996 -- 1.3.Organization of the Lander Inspectorates -- 1.4.Dualism: Statutory Accident Insurance -- 1.5.Obligation of Close Cooperation, Common German OHS Strategy -- 2.Monitoring and Inspection -- 2.1.Developments in Inspection -- 2.1.1.Staff Numbers -- 2.1.2.Frequency of Inspections -- 2.2.Reactive Inspections -- 2.2.1.Complaints -- 2.2.2.Works Councils -- 2.2.3.Accident Reporting and Investigations -- 2.3.Proactive Inspection -- 2.4.Cooperation between State Actors and BG in Inspection: Data Exchange -- 3.Post-detection Discretion --
Machine generated contents note: 1.Defining the Social Problem -- 2.Research Question -- 3.Scope, Method, Data -- 4.Structure of the Book -- 1.How to Control Risks: Private versus Public Law Solutions -- 1.1.Market Incentives -- 1.2.Tort Liability -- 1.3.Government Regulation -- 2.What Kind of Health and Safety Regulation? -- 2.1.Specification Standards -- 2.2.Performance-based Standards and General Duties -- 2.3.Process-based and Systems-based Standards -- 1.Introducing the Deterrence Model -- 2.Deterrence Model: An Appraisal -- 2.1.Rationality, Cost-benefit and Alternative Motivations to Comply -- 2.2.Empirical Evidence -- 3.Expanding the Basic Model -- 4.Introduction to the Cost-effectiveness Analysis -- 1.Monitoring and Inspection -- 1.1.Proactive and Reactive Inspection: An Introduction -- 1.2.Is Reactive Inspection Cost-effective? -- 1.3.The Value of Proactive Inspection -- 1.4.Interim Conclusion -- 2.Post-detection Discretion -- 2.1.Deterrence and Compliance --
Notes D/2012/7849/72 NUR 823
Formerly CIP. Uk
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Includes summary in Dutch
Subject Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries -- Case studies.
Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- Germany.
Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries -- Case studies.
Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- Germany.
Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2012540416
ISBN 9781780681108 (paperback)