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Key Issues in the New Regime of Occupational Health and Safety: The Right to Refuse Work and Directors' and Officers' Liability

  • Jim Thistle
  • , Matthew Clarke
  • , Joshua Martin
  • McInnes Cooper
  • MacGillivray Law Office

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Abstract

This article examines the existing and proposed occupational health and safety regulatory regimes for oil and gas operations offshore Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador The article provides historical context for both the existing and the proposed regimes. Two specific areas of concern are analysed: the right to refuse work and directors' and officers' liability. For each issue, the author offers observations on the potential impacts that the implementation of proposed legislation will have on offshore oil and gas operations in these jurisdictions
Original languageCanadian English
JournalDalhousie Law Journal
Issue number2.0
Publication statusPublished - Oct. 1 2003

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

  • occupational health and safety
  • oil
  • gas
  • offshore
  • Nova Scotia
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • legal history
  • refuse work
  • liability
  • legislation
  • oil
  • gas
  • offshore
  • resources
  • ocean

Disciplines

  • Labor and Employment Law
  • Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law

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