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Deregulation: some aspects of U.K. experience, drawn from the field of occupational safety and health

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  1. E.g. $215,000 against U.S. Steel, South Works, Chicago, March 1978: $228,000 against Texaco, Port Arthur Refinery, March 1978.

  2. Job Safety and Health (J.S.H.) (January 1978), 10.

  3. J.S.H. (February 1978), 4–9.

  4. Per R. Berman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce: reported inJ.S.H. (January 1976), 30.

  5. U.S. Supreme Court, 17th June 1981: details inEconomist (27th June, 1981), 60.

  6. Health and Safety Information Bulletin (H.S.I.B.) (June 1981), vol. 66, 12.

  7. See generally, R. W. L. Howells, 4Poly Law Review (Autumn 1978), 19.

  8. See e.g.Consolidation Coal Co. v.U.M.W. of A. Local 1557, 64 L.A. 1135 (1975).

  9. Ms. Betty Murphy (personal communication).

  10. Report of the Committee on Safety and Health at Work July 1972 Cmnd. 5034.

  11. Ibid. Report of the Committee on Safety and Health at Work July 1972 Cmnd. para. 28.

  12. Ibid. Report of the Committee on Safety and Health at Work July 1972 Cmnd. 41–42.

  13. Ibid. Report of the Committee on Safety and Health at work July 1972 Cmnd. 47.

  14. Ibid. Report of the Committee on Safety and Health at work July 1972 Cmnd. 30.

  15. Summarisedibid. Report of the Committee on Safety and Health at work July 1972 Cmnd. Chapter 4.

  16. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (hereafter H.S.W.A.).

  17. See e.g.Edwards v.National Coal Board [1949] 1 K.B. 704, reflected also in Industrial Tribunal decisions on Inspectors Notices’ under the Act: the “macro” level posed in the U.S. litigation on “feasible”.

  18. See e.g. Law Commission Working Paper no. 30,Strict Liability and the Enforcement of the Factories Act 1961, published June 1980.

  19. J.S.H. (June 1976), 32.

  20. T.U.C.Handbook on Noise, published February 1981.

  21. H.S.W.A.S.2(4) and Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977 S.I. no. 500.

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    R. W. L. Howells (Professor of Law)

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This article, together with the following one by Brenda Barrett, originally comprised two papers delivered at a conference, organised by the Association of Law Teachers in conjunction with the American Business Law Association in Florida in August 1981. The texts have been slightly altered for publication.

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Howells, R.W.L. Deregulation: some aspects of U.K. experience, drawn from the field of occupational safety and health. Liverpool Law Rev 4, 19–28 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03185305

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