Regulatory Governance and Risk Management: Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry

ISBN-13: 9780415897129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 214 str.

Binglin Yang

Opis

This text addresses the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically, it aims to understand a puzzling phenomenon.

Spis treści

@contents:1. Introduction  2. Risk-Based Governance and Analytical Framework  3. Diffusion of the Risk Management Model in the U.S. Coal Mining Industry  4. Barriers to Modeling the Risk Management Approach in the American Coal Mining Industry  5. Modeling Risk-Based System Regulation in Australia  6. Barriers to the U.S. Government’s Move toward Risk-Based System Regulation  7. Conclusion

O autorze

Binglin Yang is currently working as a consultant at Safety Solutions International, a health and safety management consulting firm in Colorado. He received his PhD in public administration from the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech in 2010.