This paper examines one crucial component of effective preventative WHS strategy, the role of systemic risk management and regulation. In particular, it examines how this approach plays out in practice through the lens of the coal mining industry in Australia’s two coal mining states, New...

Within the sphere of economic and social regulation, two of the longest standing debates concern appropriate regulatory design and compliance and enforcement. Should regulators for example, prefer command and control or opt for a more cooperative approach, and in enforcement should they prefer...