Subjects:

Health and Safety, Employment Law

Contents:

1. The development of employers’

liability law

2. The general principles of negligence

3. Causation, apportionment and contribution

4. The Employer’

s duty of care

5. Illustrations of the Employer’

s duty

6. Psychiatric Injury, Stress and Harassment

7. Industrial Disease

8. Health & Safety at Work Act

9. Breach of Statutory Duty

10. European Law

11. The general legislation

12. Workplaces

13. Machinery & Equipment

14. Manual Handling

15. Lifts and Hoists

16. Personal Protective Equipment

17. Substances Hazardous to Health

18. Working Time

19. The Factories Act

20. Construction

21. Shipbuilding

22. Docks

23. Mines and quarries

24. Railways

25. Agriculture and forestry 26. Offshore industry

27. Enforcement

28. Industrial Relations

29. Contributory Negligence

30. Liability of 3rd Parties

31. Employers Liability Insurance

32. Miscellaneous

33. Foreign Accidents

Munkman is the leading authority and the most comprehensive and analytical text in its field. It is the ideal companion to Redgrave’s Health and Safety.

Now in its 15th edition, Munkman has been brought fully up to date and takes into account the changes brought about since the previous edition, such as the emerging areas of personal injury and stress.