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Shapiro, Sidney; Tracy, Katherine --- "Occupational health and safety law" [2018] ELECD 496; in Lyster, Rosemary; Verchick, R.M. Robert (eds), "Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 148

Book Title: Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law

Editor(s): Lyster, Rosemary; Verchick, R.M. Robert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786430021

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: Occupational health and safety law

Author(s): Shapiro, Sidney; Tracy, Katherine

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

Unmitigated effects of climate change on our natural and built environment pose severe risks to workers’ health and safety, and economic risks to workers, employers, communities, and governments. This chapter, using the United States as a case study, finds US labor policies did not reduce and effective manage these risks. Moving forward, an effective approach will require risk management tools that protect workers and labor policies that assist them in adjusting to the economic dislocations likely to arise from climate change and the transition to a green economy.