Who are the major stakeholders in Occupational Health and Safety systems, and what are their rights, duties, and obligations, and interests?

What are the key principles, components, and issues of contemporary OHS?
What benefits does workers’ compensation provide, and how are these benefits funded?
How and why did governments come to intervene in the worker-employer relationship regarding issues of workplace safety and injury?

What are the major types of workplace hazards and hazard controls?
How can the major physical, chemical, and biological risks in the workplace be controlled?
Why do we have so little data about chemical toxicity in the workplace? What does this tell us about the effectiveness of hazard prevention efforts?
How does a class-based analysis expand our understanding of the prevalence of psychosocial hazards and the preferred control strategies of employers?
Why is the careless worker myth surprisingly resilient?
What are the major control strategies for each form of workplace violence?

What factors affect the effectiveness of training?
Can safety be improved by modifying workers’ behaviour? What are the risks of this approach?
What are the challenges associated with emergency planning?
What is the purpose of and what are the steps in incident investigation?
What conflicts underlie disability management programs?
What motivates employers to offer workplace wellness programming? Does programming meet these employer needs?

How does the profit imperative affect workplace health and safety?
How and why do employers and workers tend to view workplace injury differently?
Is the state really interested in preventing workplace injuries? Why, or why not?