Safe Design and Construction of Machinery: Regulation, Practice and Performance

238 Pages·2015·1.067 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Bluff

Safe DeSign anD ConStruCtion

of MaChinery
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Safe Design and Construction
of Machinery
regulation, Practice and Performance
elizabeth bluff
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
© elizabeth bluff 2015
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to be identified as the author of this work.
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bluff, elizabeth.
Safe design and construction of machinery : regulation, practice, and performance / by
elizabeth bluff.
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includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-5077-7 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-4724-5078-4 (ebook) –
ISBN 978-1-4724-5079-1 (epub) 1. Machine design. 2. Machinery–Safety measures.
i. title.
th230.b597 2015
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About the Author
Elizabeth Bluff has 30 years’ experience in occupational health and safety (OHS)
and risk management. She is a Director of the National Research Centre for OHS
Regulation in the Regulatory Institutions Network, at The Australian National
University where she also holds an appointment as a Research Fellow. She has a
Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, a Masters of Applied
Science (OHS) from the University of Ballarat and a PhD in OHS regulation from
Griffith University, Queensland.
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Contents
About the Author v
List of Figures and Tables ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Preface xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Legal Obligations for Designing and Constructing
Safe Machinery 13
3 Machinery Manufacturers’ Performance for Substantive
Safety Outcomes 25
4 Awareness of Legal Obligations for Machinery Safety 45
5 Encounters with Regulators 55
6 Practice, Learning and Performance 77
7 Assessing and Managing Risks 109
8 Motivational Factors and Performance 135
9 Conclusions, Theory and Policy Implications 163
Appendix Research Design and Methodology 185
References 191
Index 217
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List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 The plural constituents of manufacturers’ responses for machine
safety 8
9.1 The plural constituents of manufacturers’ responses for machinery
safety 174
Tables
2.1 Core elements of legal obligations for the safe design and
construction of machinery 19
3.1 Scope of hazard recognition 28
3.2 Type and quality of risk control measures 32
3.3 Scope and quality of machinery safety information 40
6.1 Interacting with customers and performance for substantive safety
outcomes 101
6.2 Other practices linked with better performance for several
substantive safety outcomes 102
6.3 Practices linked with better performance for risk control outcomes 103
6.4 Individual factors linked with better or poorer performance for
substantive safety outcomes 104
6.5 Referring to technical standards and performance for substantive
safety outcomes 105
7.1 Risk assessment practices linked with better performance for
hazard recognition only 128
7.2 Risk assessment practices linked with better performance for
several substantive safety outcomes 129
7.3 Informal approaches linked with poorer performance for
substantive safety outcomes 130
8.1 Legal motivations linked with better or poorer performance for
substantive safety outcomes 154