Workplace health and safety law in Australia / Neil Foster.

Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2012.

1st edition

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Law -- Australia.

Criminal law -- Australia.

Civil law -- Australia.

Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Labor laws and legislation -- Australia.

Part I. Introduction to the Australian legal system

Chapter 1. Law, its sources, and the common law

Chapter 2. Sources of law : statutes and how the courts read them

Part II. Workplace safety and civil law

Chapter 3. Workplace safety and the contract of employment

Chapter 4. Protection of workplace safety under tort law - negligence : duty of care

Chapter 5. Protection of workplace safety under tort law - negligence : other matters

Chapter 6. Protection of workplace safety under tort law : breach of statutory duty

Part III. Workplace safety and criminal law

Chapter 7. Criminal WHS law : general introduction, primary duties

Chapter 8. Criminal WHS law : other health and safety duties

Chapter 9. Criminal WHS law : other duties and enforcement

Chapter 10. Workplace safety under regulatory criminal law

Part IV. Workplace safety and the general law

Chapter 11. Workers' compensation under statute

Chapter 12. Workplace health and safety and anti-discrimination law

Chapter 13. Workplace safety and litigation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780409330304

liii, 646 p. : ill. ; 24 cm