The causes of disaster, both immediate and underlying, that resulted in 54 fatalities in Riga in November 2013 are analyzed in this paper. The collapse of the Maxima supermarket is seen as a safety failure resulting from longer-term deregulation in Latvia encouraged by external advisors such as...

The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has provided trade unions in the UK with new opportunities for achieving recognition. After a long history of anti-unionism in the offshore oil and gas industry, employers have voluntarily ceded recognition to Trades Union Congress (TUC)-affiliated trade...

Using the example of occupational health and safety regulation, this article examines the tensions between neo-liberalism and social democratic policy approaches in the context of pre-accession transitional Lithuania. It is argued that attempts to provide a 'business-friendly' investment climate...

Since 1990, following Lord Cullen's public inquiry into the Piper-Alpha disaster, the oil industry has spent approximately 2.6 billion pounds on safety improvements. The operators have co-operated with governmental authorities in the design of a new regulatory regime, based on the principles of...