Section | Description | Page |
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1.1 – Socio-legal models | Role, function and limitations of legislation as a means of promoting positive health and safety outcomes | 3 |
| Legal models and the legal hierarchy of state and federal laws | 4 |
| Loss events in terms of failures in the duty of care to protect individuals and compensatory mechanisms that may be available to them | 6 |
1.2 – Enforcement | Purpose of enforcement | 9 |
| Principles of enforcement | 9 |
1.3 – The International Labour Organization and its conventions and recommendations | The role of the United Nations | 11 |
| The roles and responsibilities of ‘international governments’, ‘enterprises’ and ‘workers’ | 13 |
| International conventions as a basis for setting national systems of health and safety legislation | 24 |
1.4 – Non-governmental bodies and health and safety standards | Relevant influential parties and their role in influencing health and safety performance | 25 |
| Importance of print, broadcast and social media in a global economy and their role in changing attitudes to health and safety | 27 |
| The benefits of schemes which promote co-operation on health and safety between different companies | 28 |
| The possible adverse effects on business’s reputation due to stakeholder reaction to health and safety concerns | 29 |
| An organisation’s moral obligations to raise standards of health and safety within their supply chains | 30 |
| Self-regulation and the role and function of corporate governance in a system of self-regulation | 31 |
| How internal rules and procedures regulate health and safety performance | 32 |
1.5 – Third party control | Identification of third parties | 33 |
| Reasons for ensuring third parties are covered by health and safety management systems | 34 |
| Basic duties owed to and by third parties | 35 |
| Internal rules and procedures | 36 |
| Responsibilities for control of risks | 39 |
| Requirements to provide information to third parties | 40 |
| Review of contractor performance | 40 |
1.6 – Insurers | How insurers can influence organisational health and safety | 41 |
| Role of loss adjusters and claims handlers | 41 |