LAWS8311 Occupational Health and Safety Law
| Offered By | Law School |
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| Academic Career | Graduate Coursework |
| Course Subject | Laws |
| Offered in | Spring Session, 2013 |
| Unit Value | 6 units |
| Course Description | Occupational Health and Safety Law will provide students with an understanding of the legal regulation of workplace injuries, especially the employer's common-law duty to maintain a safe workplace and the employer's obligations under occupational health and safety statutes. The course will consider the problem of work-related injuries in the workplace, and the nature of workplace accidents. The course will consider briefly the history of workpace safety regulation, the failure of the common law to reduce accidents in the workplace and the Robens reforms on which modern safety laws are based. The focus of the course will then shift to an examination of statutory regimes governing occupational health and safety law in Australia. The focus of the course will be on the New South Wales and Commonwealth regimes, but significant differences between these two acts and those existing in the other States and Territories will also be highlighted. Importantly, the course will also consider the proposals to harmonise Australia's nine separate occupational health and safety jurisdictions, and will provide students with the opportunity to be completely up-to-date with these important changes. |
| Learning Outcomes |
At the conculsion of this course, students will be able to:
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| Indicative Assessment |
This is a preliminary statement on the proposed assessment. Class presentations on selected extracts from materials - 15% class participation - 10% research paper of approximately 6,000 words - 75% |
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