Based on interviews with facility managers in the electroplating and chemical industries, this study examines regulated firms’ perceptions of how various instrumental, normative and social factors motivated their firms' safety, health and environmental actions. We found that ‘implicit...

In designing occupational health and safety (OHS) standards, it is vitally important to determine what kinds of measures are most likely to produce best policy outcomes, influence organisational behaviour and achieve genuine improvements in OHS performance, while being enforceable and able to be...