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Professor Andrew Hopkins has been engaged as “an organisational factors expert” to help the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) to understand the cultural and organisational causes of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

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UPCOMING CONFERENCE:

"Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association 2011 Conference and Exhibition"

10th-13th April 2011 Professor Hopkins is a Plenary Speaker at the 2011 APPEA Conference and Exhibition. He will be speaking on the topic of Safety Leadership Performance: Cultural Change.

The leaders of oil and gas in Australia attend the APPEA Conference and Exhibition each year to hear government insights, leading international energy experts, top companies deliver their project updates do to business at the state-of-the art exhibition.

Safety Research Papers


 


Additional titles by Professor Hopkins (since 1995):

1995: 

Making Safety Work: Getting Management Commitment to Occupational  Health and Safety, (Sydney: Allen and Unwin)

 

1999:

Managing Major Hazards: the Lessons of the Moura Mine Disaster, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin)

 

2000:

Lessons from Longford:  The Esso Gas Plant Explosion, (Sydney: CCH

 

2002:

Changing Regulation: Controlling Risks in Society, (Oxford:Pergamon), edited, with B Kirwan and A Hale

 

2002:

Lessons from  Longford: The Trial, (Sydney: CCH)

 

2005:

Safety, Culture and Risk, (Sydney: CCH)

 

2007:

Lessons from Gretley: Mindful Leadership and the Law, (CCH:Sydney)

 

2008:

Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster, (CCH, Sydney)     

 

2009:

Learning from High Reliability Organisations, (CCH, Sydney) - Editor 


Articles in Scholarly Journals

1984:

"Blood Money?  The Effect of Bonus Pay on Safety in Coal Mines", A.N.Z. Journal of Sociology, 20(1):23-46.

 

1984:

"Why coal mine safety regulations in Australia are not enforced", International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 12:179-94 (with Nina Parnell).

 

1987:

"The cause of coal mine accidents", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, (Spring), pp. 26-39.

 

1989:

"The social construction of RSI", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology. Vol. 25, No.2.  pp 239-59.

 

1990:

The social recognition of RSI:  An Australian/American comparison, Social Science and Medicine. Vol. 30. No.3, pp. 365 - 73.

 

1990: 

"Job redesign: a solution for RSI?", Work and People. Vol. 13, No.3, pp. 57-8.

 

1990:

"Stress, the quality of work and RSI in Australia", Work and Stress. Vol 4, No 2, pp.129-38

 

1994 :

"Are Workers' Compensation Statistics a Health and Safety Hazard?" Australian Journal of Public Administration

Vol 53 No 1 (March) pp78-86                                

 

1994:

"The impact of Workers' Compensation Premium Incentive Schemes on Health and Safety", Journal of Occupational Health andSafety - ANZ , Vol 10 No2 pp.129-136

 

1999: 

"For whom does safety pay? The case of major accidents”, Safety Science, 32:143-53

 

1999:

“The limits of Normal Accident Theory”,Safety Science, 32:93-102

 

1999:

“Counteracting the cultural causes of disaster”, Journal of Contingencies and  Crisis Management, 7(3), September, pp. 141-9

 

2000:

“A culture of denial: Sociological similarities between the Moura and Gretley mine disasters, , J. of Occupational Health& Safety – ANZ, Vol 16 (1):29-36 


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