Employer liability for workplace trauma

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    • Butler, D. A. (Des A.)

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Employer liability for workplace trauma

Des Butler

Ashgate, c2002

  • : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This title offers an examination of the law concerning liability for psychiatric injury suffered by employees in the workplace. Included among these are employees confronting the risk of death or injury in the course of their normal employment, such as police or fire-fighters, those confronting death or injury out of their ordinary course of employment, such as accidents at work, and those possibly exposed to health-threatening circumstances, such as dust in the workplace. Also considered are employees who suffer mental health problems resulting from environmental factors, such as bullying, overwork and disciplinary measures. The amount of damages recovered in such actions can be substantial and this book examines the extent of the employer's liability, as well as provides a psychiatric medicine perspective and a detailed analysis of the state of the law in England, Wales and Australia.

Table of Contents

  • A medical perspective of workplace trauma
  • Workers' compensation
  • Basis of employer's liability at common law
  • Common law claims - confronting death, injury or peril
  • Common law claims - environmental stress
  • Minimizing legal exposure.

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