Using Mort to Generate Organisational Feedback from Single Accidents at Work

Koornneef, Floor; Hale, Andrew

doi:10.1016/b978-008043074-4/50028-4

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“…One reason for the proliferation of regulations is that effective mechanisms for reviewing and streamlining them are used infrequently. Such review can be forced by having "sunset provisions" Learning about and improving regulations will not occur unless some "learning agency" is designated as owner of that process (Koornneef & Hale 1997). The government must clearly establish a "learning agency" to enable each regulatory agency to learn about what works, and what does not work, in its formal regulations.…”

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Safety regulation: The lessons of workplace safety rule management for managing the regulatory burden

2015

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There is a strong political consensus in a number of countries that occupational safety and health regulation is stifling industrial innovation and development and is feeding a culture of damaging risk aversion and petty bureaucracy. In a number of countries this has led to proposals to repeal regulations and reduce the regulatory burden. The authors were commissioned to prepare a discussion paper on this issue by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, aimed particularly at an American audience.The paper is based on previous work of the first two authors, developing a framework of safety rule management at the workplace level (Hale & Borys 2012a and b). Based on a literature study, this paper analyses the similarities and differences between rules at the workplace level and the development, use and enforcement of regulations at the national level to influence and control organisational behaviour. It traces the forces encouraging the growth of regulatory detail and hence the bureaucratic burden of compliance and the options open to reduce that burden without loosening control so much that the level of safety declines. The analysis uses the hierarchy of rules from goals, through process (risk management) rules to detailed action rules as framework for predicting the level of ownership and responsibility felt by the regulated.

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confidence: 99%