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55 Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Public Sector Equality Duty Case Studies’ (Web Page, 13
October 2020) <https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/public-sector-equalityduty-case-studies>.
56 Lord Alfred Robens, Safety and Health at Work: Report of the Committee, 1970–1972. (Command Paper No
5034, 9 June 1972).
57 Christopher Sirrs, ‘Accidents and Apathy: The construction of the “Robens Philosophy” of Occupational
Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961–1974’ (2015) 29(1) Social History of Medicine 66, 67.
58 Christopher Sirrs, ‘Accidents and Apathy: The construction of the “Robens Philosophy” of Occupational
Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961–1974’ (2015) 29(1) Social History of Medicine 66, 67.
59 Christopher Sirrs, ‘Accidents and Apathy: The construction of the “Robens Philosophy” of Occupational
Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961–1974’ (2015) 29(1) Social History of Medicine 66, 67.
60 Christopher Sirrs, ‘Accidents and Apathy: The construction of the “Robens Philosophy” of Occupational
Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961–1974’ (2015) 29(1) Social History of Medicine 66, 84.
61 Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian
Workplaces (2020) 540. The references have been retained.
62 A common term used to describe an approach to regulating WHS established under Lord Robens’ Report
of the Committee on Safety and Health at Work (UK) in 1972.
63 Marie Boland, Review of the Model Work Health and Safety Laws (Final Report, December 2018) 22.
64 Marie Boland, Review of the Model Work Health and Safety Laws (Final Report, December 2018) 21.
65 Model WHS Act s 19.
66 Christopher Sirrs, ‘Accidents and Apathy: The construction of the “Robens Philosophy” of Occupational
Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961–1974’ (2015) 29(1) Social History of Medicine 66, 85.
67 Christopher Sirrs, ‘Accidents and Apathy: The construction of the “Robens Philosophy” of Occupational
Safety and Health Regulation in Britain, 1961–1974’ (2015) 29(1) Social History of Medicine 66, 85.
68 ‘Overview of work health and safety regulation in Australia’, <http://regnet.anu.edu.au/research/
centres/national-research-centre-ohs-regulation-nrcohsr/overview-work-health-and-safety-regulationaustralia>.
69 Safe Work Australia, How to Determine What Is Reasonably Practicable to Meet a Health and Safety Duty
(May 2013) 4 (emphasis in original).
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