2006-01-13
The blameworthiness of health and safety rule violations
Publication
Publication
Law & Policy p. 1- 34
Man-made disasters usually lead to the tightening of safety regulations, because rule breaking is seen as a major cause of them. This reaction is based on the presumptions that the safety rules are good and that the rule-breakers are wrong. The reasons the personnel of a coke factory gave for breaking rules raise doubt about the tenability of these presumptions. It is unlikely that this result would have been achieved on the basis of a disaster evaluation or High-Reliability Theory. In both approaches, knowledge of the consequences of human conduct hinders an unprejudiced judgement about the blameworthiness of rule breaking.
Additional Metadata | |
---|---|
, , , , , , , , | |
hdl.handle.net/1765/7236 | |
Law & Policy | |
Organisation | Department of Sociology |
Mascini, P. (2006). The blameworthiness of health and safety rule violations. Law & Policy, 1–34. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/7236 |