LAW5 640 - Employment Law: Health and Safety

While hundreds of thousands of employees every year suffer accidental injuries, occupational diseases, or become victims of violence in the workplace, injury rates have fallen steadily over the last century. What role has legal regulation played in this decline? How might existing laws be better designed to improve workplace health and safety without imposing unduly large regulatory burdens on employers? This course considers such questions as it examines legal responses to work-related health and safety issues. The worker’s compensation system and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) are studied in some detail. Course coverage also includes topics such as workplace violence, drug testing, smoking, and health insurance. Designed to complement the companion offering on Employment Law: Contracts, Torts & Statutes.

Credits: 3