Work Health and Safety Law - JURD7531
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS3231
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Topics
- History and development of work health and safety laws
- Introduction to the Work Health and Safety laws
- Primary duty of care
- Duty of designers, manufacturers, suppliers of plant, substances and structures
- Duty of controllers of workplaces
- Duty of officers
- Duty of workers
- Consultation with workers and other duty holders
- Protection against victimisation for work health and safety issues
- Incident notification, investigation and management
- Enforcement of work health and safety laws
- Interaction between work health and safety laws and other areas of regulation - industrial relations, environmental protection and the criminal law
- Assessing the effectiveness of work health and safety regulation in Australia