Regulating supply chains to improve health and safety
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2007
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The fragmentation of previously integrated systems of production and service delivery has been an important feature of organisational restructuring over the last three decades. This article highlights the adverse implications of this development for the health and safety of workers, examines the extent to which current British health and safety law provides an adequate framework for addressing these outcomes and explores whether its capacity to do so could be enhanced through the introduction of new statutory provisions on the regulation of supply chains. It concludes that, in terms of both structure and operation, the present framework of law is problematic. It further argues that recent international initiatives show that it is feasible to develop such statutory provisions and that existing evidence suggests that provisions of this type could usefully be introduced in respect of a number of areas of activity where the implications of the externalisation of production and service delivery seem particularly problematic. |
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Oxford University Press |
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http://ilj.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/2/163.short DOI:10.1093/indlaw/dwm002 James, Phil, Johnstone, Richard, Quinlan, Michael, & Walters, David (2007) Regulating supply chains to improve health and safety. Industrial Law Journal, 36(2), pp. 163-187. |
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Copyright 2007 Oxford University Press |
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Faculty of Law; Australian Centre for Health Law Research; School of Law |
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Journal Article |