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Safe and Health Work: a Human Right

dc.contributor.authorOldfield, Yvonne Sidney
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-07T22:57:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-02T01:35:51Z
dc.date.available2013-03-07T22:57:20Z
dc.date.available2022-11-02T01:35:51Z
dc.date.copyright2012
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractFatal workplace incidents or work related diseases are a major cause of death and disability worldwide, but especially in the developing nations. Although rights to health and safety on the job appear in all major human rights instruments such issues have not consistently been framed as human rights issues and have not attracted the same level of attention as other human rights issues. This paper explores the reasons for this including the theoretical issues that arise in relation to the question whether workers’ rights are human rights. It critiques the ILO’s decision to identify a narrow core of workplace rights (excluding workplace health and safety) in the 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and makes a case for the inclusion of a wider range of workplace rights, including rights to health and safety, to be included in this core. The paper concludes by considering the difficult questions of how such a right might be defined and what the role of the State, as duty holder, might be. It does so with particular reference to New Zealand’s statutory health and safety regime, and concludes that it is consistent with the State obligations set out in the Maastricht Guidelines on economic, social and cultural rights.en_NZ
dc.formatpdfen_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/28446
dc.languageen_NZ
dc.language.isoen_NZ
dc.publisherTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellingtonen_NZ
dc.subjectHuman rightsen_NZ
dc.subjectLabour lawen_NZ
dc.subjectILOen_NZ
dc.subjectWorkplace health and safetyen_NZ
dc.titleSafe and Health Work: a Human Righten_NZ
dc.typeTexten_NZ
thesis.degree.disciplineLawen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellingtonen_NZ
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_NZ
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Lawen_NZ
vuwschema.contributor.unitSchool of Lawen_NZ
vuwschema.subject.marsden390303 Human Rightsen_NZ
vuwschema.subject.marsden390116 Labour Lawen_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuwMasters Research Paper or Projecten_NZ

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