Yang, Binglin, Ph. D.

Regulatory governance and risk management : Occupational health and safety in the coal mining industry / Binglin Yang. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - xvi, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in management and business studies 47 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-192)- and index.

Introduction ; Risk-based governance and analytical framework ; Diffusion of the risk management model in the U.S. coal mining industry ; Barriers to modeling the risk management approach in the American coal mining industry ; Modeling risk-based system regulation in Australia ; Barriers to the U.S. government's move toward risk-based system regulation ; Conclusion.

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Coal mines and mining--Safety measures.--United States
Coal mines and mining--Risk assessment--United States.
Mineral industries--Risk management--United States.
Mineral industries--Safety measures.--United States
Mine safety--Law and legislation--United States.
Mine safety--Law and legislation--Australia.