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Beyond Compliance Monitoring: New Strategies for Safety Regulators
Author(s) -
HOPKINS ANDREW
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.2007.00253.x
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , audit , legislation , task (project management) , duty , business , risk analysis (engineering) , sort , public relations , process management , accounting , computer science , political science , management , economics , law , psychology , social psychology , information retrieval
Although the advent of general duty legislation makes the task of the regulator far less clear‐cut, inspectorates are still involved in monitoring and to some extent enforcing compliance with rules of various sorts. Monitoring compliance in this way is crucially important, but this article seeks to identify strategies that go beyond compliance monitoring, by drawing on research on the causes of accidents and the nature of organizations. The strategies identified include: auditing the auditors; proactive investigation; supporting company safety staff; advising on organizational design; exposing performance; and promoting regulatory crisis. These are all ways in which regulators can encourage companies to improve their management of risk, ways that are not focused on identifying noncompliance with rules of any sort.