Regulation and Risk: Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways

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Bridget M. Hutter (Peacock Professor of Risk Management and Director for Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics)

Regulation and Risk

Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways

Bridget M. Hutter (Peacock Professor of Risk Management and Director for Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics)

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Oxford University Press
01 April 2001

Management decision making; Railway transport industries; Occupational & industrial health & safety; Legislation

Regulating the risks associated with economic activities is a feature of modern societies and one in which the state increasingly seeks to co-opt the regulatory powers of corporations. This book examines the impact of a system of enforced self-regulation on the corporate life of British Railways. It uses this case study of occupational health and safety regulation to focus on broader theoretical and empirical discussions of regulation, risk, and corporate activities. A central organizing perspective of this book is that regulation is a form of risk management. It examines how workplace risks in modern societies are managed by businesses and the individuals within them and considers what influence the law has in this. The tensions between the constitutive and controlling aspects of regulatory law are analysed with reference to in-depth empirical data about corporate and individual compliance and non-compliance. Related concerns about the social control of organizational and economic life are explored and their policy and theoretical implications examined. These issues are especially significant following the privatization of Britain's rail network and the introduction of regulatory systems which are highly reliant on industry self-regulation. More generally, their significance is highlighted by the increasing popularity of risk-based approaches to corporate governance. The book argues that if regulation is to be an effective way of managing risk we need to pay more attention to the assumptions we make about corporate life and be more prepared to use the full range of regulatory sources and tools available to us.

By: Bridget M. Hutter (Peacock Professor of Risk Management and Director for Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation London School of Economics)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 681g
ISBN: 9780199242504
ISBN 10: 019924250X
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 01 April 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bridget Hutter is the Peacock Professor of Risk Management at the London School of Economics and Director of CARR ( Centre for Analysis of Risk Regulation). She is author of numerous publications on the subject of regulation. Her research interests are in the broad area of the sociology of regulation and risk management; the regulation of economic life with particular reference to financial, occupational health and safety, and environmental regulations; regulatory enforcement and corporate responses to regulation; and the social control of organizations.

Reviews for Regulation and Risk: Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways

This excellent book is an important contribution to the regulatory debate. British Journal of Sociology ...thorough and well-argued analysis of health and safety work in a large organisation. Risk Management vol 5 no 2