The Shift from Regulation to Crime

In order to understand the importance of the issue of work-related death, it is important to gauge how many fatalities of this sort actually occur. Attempting to do so illustrates three key points the sheer volirme of harm that occurs as a result of corporate behaviour, the difficulty of measuring this harm, and the key role that statistics play in redefining 

It must be noted that these data are by no means complete. For instance, the EU s incidence rates include only core industries because statistics for other industrial and employment sectors are not measured 

Work-related disasters have constituted some of the most harmful peacetime events resulting from human activity during the last 30 years. They are public events, in that they go beyond the confines of the workplace and cause death and injury to members of the wider community. 

There is a tendency for accounts of work-related deaths to focus exclusively on traditional workplaces and employment relationships, overlooking the fact that a significant proportion of work does not fit into this model (Atkinson 1985 Belous 1995 Cappelli 1999 Estlund 2003 Ch. 3). Atypical work accounts for many deaths and injuries each year, often involving some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged people in society (Bardasi and Francesconi 2004 Mayhew and Quinlan 

Regulatory enforcement practices following work-related deaths 

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