...Lee Robert Hughes; Rose Raniolo Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine and contrast director duties in health and safety in the UK and Australian jurisdictions, the former influencing the latter's health and safety regime until Australia introduced a new more progressive regime. Design...

.../approach Desk‐based research was carried out. Findings The scope of the paper is confined to two major aspects of the criminal law – that of manslaughter, both statutory and at common law and also touches on the range of health and safety offences available to the courts. In terms of manslaughter...

... protection spheres. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Consideration of legislation, guidance and recent case law. Findings There is a significant divide between fines imposed for health and safety fatalities and those for competition/fraud offences. It is a sad fact...

...Alexandra Dobson; Chris Gale; Alexandra Dobson Purpose The aim of this paper is to seek to examine the operation of S.37 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in the context of the debate about director's duties for health and safety. It goes on to consider whether its increased use...

... and smoking and ventilation. Looks at the plans for a new OSHA and concludes that this area will always be subject to change as attempts are made to keep pace with new hazards. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Occupational health Safety USA Legislation Health and safety New Developments in Californian...