WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW
LAW5WHS
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
This course focusses on the legal regulation of workplace health and safety (WHS), including the common law duty to maintain a safe workplace and statutory obligations under WHS legislation. It examines the effectiveness of common law regulation, and the history of law reform, including the Australian model WHS legislation, in the cultural, economic and other contexts in which this area of the law operates. It considers workplace safety in light of the nature of workplace accidents and work-related injuries, including contemporary issues of psychological injury resulting from discrimination or harassment. It also examines sui generis safety systems such as those applying to heavy vehicles, railways, mines and air safety. Students will develop a broad practical understanding of issues such as the WHS obligations in relation to consultation and workplace representation, the approach taken by WHS regulatory bodies and the sentencing principles applied following successful prosecutions
School: La Trobe Law School (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Julia Dehm
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: Lectures, Seminars, Workshops
Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: LAW5PMI
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Quota Management Strategy: N/A
Quota-conditions or rules: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Minimum credit point requirement: N/A
Assumed knowledge: N/A
Learning resources
Work Health and Safety Law and Policy
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prescribed
Author: Richard Johnstone
Year: 2012
Edition/Volume: 3rd
Publisher: N/A
ISBN: 9780455229836
Chapter/article title: N/A
Chapter/issue: N/A
URL: N/A
Other description: N/A
Source location: N/A
Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
Entire subject or partial subject: N/A
Total hours/days required: N/A
Location of WBL activity (region): N/A
WBL addtional requirements: N/A