Beyond Compliance - Safety, Health and Environmental Regulation in the Mining Sector, An Empirical Analysis

通过对矿业的实证研究，本研究将丰富我们对企业安全、健康和环境绩效动因的理解。它将解释监管、社会许可证压力、经济约束和内部管理风格如何影响结果，并导致一些人(但不是另一些人)“超越合规”。它的意义将是解释和模拟改善企业安全、健康和环境绩效的途径，从而促进监管理论和有助于有效的政策设计。通过促进和奖励行业超越合规，它将以更低的成本实现更好的政策结果。

Through empirical research on the mining sector, this study will enrich our understanding of the motivators of corporate safety, health and environmental performance. It will explain how regulation, social licence pressures, economic constraints and internal management style, affect outcomes and cause some, but not others, to go 'beyond compliance'. Its significance will be to explain and model the pathways to better corporate safety, health and environmental performance and thereby advance regulatory theory and contribute to effective policy design. By facilitating and rewarding industry for going beyond compliance it will enable better policy outcomes at less cost.