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Author Yang, Binglin

Title Regulatory Governance and Risk Management : Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Routledge advances in management and business studies.
Contents Regulatory Governance and Risk Management Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Risk-Based Governance and Analytical Framework; 3 Diffusion of the Risk Management Model in the U.S. Coal Mining Industry; 4 Barriers to Modeling the Risk Management Approach in the American Coal Mining Industry; 5 Modeling Risk-Based System Regulation in Australia; 6 Barriers to the U.S. Government's Move toward Risk-Based System Regulation; 7 Conclusion; Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Interviewees by Position and CountryNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Regulatory Governance and Risk Management will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically, it aims to understand a puzzling phenomenon. Since the 1990s, the approach of risk-based governance has been widely adopted in almost all developed countries in Europe and commonwealth countries. It, however, has diffused much more slowly in the U.S. Using a diffusion approach and comparisons between Australia and the U.S., this book examines mechanisms that both drive and prevent the diffusion of
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Subject Coal mines and mining -- United States -- Safety measures
Coal mines and mining -- Risk assessment -- United States
Mineral industries -- Risk management -- United States
Mineral industries -- United States -- Safety measures
Mine safety -- Law and legislation -- United States
Mine safety -- Law and legislation -- Australia
Coal mines and mining -- Safety measures
Mine safety -- Law and legislation
Mineral industries -- Safety measures
Australia
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203804384
0203804384