Lessons from Gretley: Mindful leadership and the law

Lessons from Gretley: Mindful leadership and the law

Following on from the highly respected Lessons from Longford comes Lessons from Gretley, exploring the 1996 Gretley Mine disaster in NSW, Australia and its Health and Safety implications.

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Written by premier Health and Safety author Professor Andrew Hopkins, the book is provoked by current attempts to hold directors and managers responsible for workplace accidents.

Lessons from Gretley describes the 2004/05 conviction and fining of two mine managers in Australia following the mine disaster at Gretley in NSW in 1996 and discusses whether the law was unfair to these managers. The book also examines the impact of the Gretley prosecution on the industry, using interviews with a small sample of mine managers. Hopkins then proposes the controversial view that effective OHS law must hold the top corporate leaders responsible when something goes seriously wrong, regardless of whether they were personally at fault.

Features:

  • Based around a specific case study so real-life situations are discussed
  • Written with multiple audiences in mind¿regulatory policy setters and organisational leaders
  • Discusses what kinds of legal/regulatory strategies can be used to focus the minds of leaders on safety
  • Covers what organisational leaders can they do to maximise the chances of safe operation

Contents

  • Introduction
  • The demand for prosecution
  • The first failure - reliance on faulty plans
  • The second failure — dismissing the warnings
  • The campaign for law reform
  • Industrial manslaughter
  • Holding corporate leaders responsible
  • Organisational mindfulness
  • Mindful leadership
  • The lessons
  • An empirical study of the effects of the Gretley prosecution
  • Appendix
  • References

Author:

  • Professor Andrew Hopkins is a sociologist at the Australian National University and has published widely in the area of occupational health and safety. He is author of CCH's Safety, Culture and Risk and Lessons from Longford: The Esso Gas Plant Explosion.

ISBN:

  • 978-1-92122-3-310


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