Comments on: Jail or Ruin? Is deterrence still effective? https://safetyatworkblog.com/2020/04/24/jail-or-ruin-is-deterrence-still-effective/ Award winning news, commentary and opinion on workplace health and safety Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Kevin Jones https://safetyatworkblog.com/2020/04/24/jail-or-ruin-is-deterrence-still-effective/#comment-72538 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:38:18 +0000 https://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=100899#comment-72538 In reply to Peter Bateman.

It will be interesting to hear/read the statements that will be made next Tuesday for International Workers’ Memorial Day. Will the statements about the importance of OHS be the same as in previous years? Will the focus be on the healthcare workers who are dying from COVID19?

Or will they be, as I so naively desire, the catalyst for the rebuilding of a new version of employment and OHS law and for a coordinated approach to public and occupational wellbeing? (Oh wait, hang on, your NZ government is already doing that!)

]]> By: Peter Bateman https://safetyatworkblog.com/2020/04/24/jail-or-ruin-is-deterrence-still-effective/#comment-72536 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:44:14 +0000 https://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=100899#comment-72536 Good stuff here Kevin.
The threat of something bad happening to a senior manager or director – industrial manslaughter, a prosecution, a fine, public humiliation – doesn’t deter companies from making poor decisions on H&S. It just won’t happen. Never has.
On the contrary, good H&S outcomes arise when an organisation views H&S as a useful lens through which useful initiatives to improve work – and the organisation – can be viewed.

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