Regulatory governance and risk management : occupational health and safety in the coal mining industry / / Binglin Yang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779032703321
• Autore: Yang Binglin, Ph. D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-64024-X; 1-283-46234-6; 9786613462343; 1-136-64025-8; 0-203-80438-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in management and business studies ; ; 47
• Disciplina: 363.11/96223340973; 363.1196223340973
• Soggetti: Coal mines and mining - Risk assessment - United States; Coal mines and mining - United States - Safety measures; Mine safety - Law and legislation - Australia; Mine safety - Law and legislation - United States; Mineral industries - Risk management - United States; Mineral industries - United States - Safety measures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 d