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Unpublished Paper
Workplace Health and Safety Law in Australia Update No 1
WHSLA Updates
(2012)
Abstract
This is one of a series of updates I will be issuing to provide notes of recent developments in Workplace Health and Safety Law which either have occurred after the book was published, or which I hadn't noticed previously. Update No 1 deals with changes to the common law in relation to actions for nervous shock by relatives of workers who are killed or injured by their employer's negligence.
Keywords
- Psychological harm,
- nervous shock
Disciplines
Publication Date
2012
Citation Information
Neil J Foster. "Workplace Health and Safety Law in Australia Update No 1" WHSLA Updates (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/neil_foster/59/