Cases & Materials On Occupational Health And Safety Law

The primary purpose of this book is to assist students of occupational health and safety law. It will also be useful to both undergraduate and postgraduate students who have an interest in this area. It is a valuable reference book for practitioners in health and safety as well as personnel managers. The text draws heavily on legislation and law reports, but some references to other materials are made when this has seemed to the authors to be an appropriate way of developing, explaining or commenting on the essential legal materials.The presentation is thematic. Accident prevention and accident compensation are both covered and this in itself suggests two major themes - namely the respective roles of the criminal and civil law in encouraging the operation of safe systems at the work place. Within these themes the role of the European Union, the UK Parliament and European and UK courts of law have to be accommodated. The intention of the book is to present the law, therefore it makes necessary references to technical standards; but it does include extracts from official Codes of Practice and Guidance on the interpretation of regulatory materials.