Temple-Smith, Richard and Sheumack, Michele D. and Eddington, Ian (2000) On the time lag between awareness of a public health problem and the enactment of preventive legislation. In: NOSHCON 2000 : 39th Annual International Safety, Health, & Environment Conference, 24-26 May 2000, Sun City, South Africa.
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Abstract
Two case studies, one about white lead in paint and another about industrial deafness, are employed to reveal 19-year lags between the emergence of preventive legislation and initial awareness that a public health problem existed. A discussion follows about ethics, politics and the human condition and the main findings of this discussion are applied to the question of how legislative lags might be shortened.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Commonwealth Reporting Category E) (Paper) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Item Status: | Live Archive |
Additional Information: | No evidence of copyright restrictions. |
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business - Department of Economics and Resource Management (Up to 31 Mar 2007) |
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business - Department of Economics and Resource Management (Up to 31 Mar 2007) |
Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2007 01:09 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2013 22:45 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | occupational health and safety, ethics, duty of care, human condition, public policy time lags |
Fields of Research (2008): | 11 Medical and Health Sciences > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111705 Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety 16 Studies in Human Society > 1605 Policy and Administration > 160509 Public Administration 18 Law and Legal Studies > 1801 Law > 180119 Law and Society |
Fields of Research (2020): | 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3505 Human resources and industrial relations > 350505 Occupational and workplace health and safety 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4407 Policy and administration > 440708 Public administration 48 LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES > 4804 Law in context > 480499 Law in context not elsewhere classified |
URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/2551 |
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