Nightmare Pipeline Failures: Fantasy planning, black swans and integrity management

Why is Andrew Hopkins’ quiet outrage making the world of work safer? Read the story behind the storyteller. Jan Hayes & Andrew Hopkins The worst nightmares of the oil and gas pipeline industry are coming true in the United States. High-pressure natural gas pipelines run u... Read more

Published: Dec 2014

Learning from High Reliability Organisations

Why is Andrew Hopkin's quiet outrage making the world of work safer? Read the story behind the storyteller. This eBook is an in-depth analysis into what makes a high reliability organisation. Combining research from OHS experts, including Professor Andrew Hopkins, learn what these org... Read more

Published: Dec 2014

Safety Culture and Risk

Why is Andrew Hopkin's quiet outrage making the world of work safer? Read the story behind the storyteller. Safety management in the workplace is an issue of critical importance to business managers as well as those responsible for OHS in any organisation. However, although the conc... Read more

Published: Dec 2014

Income Tax, Native Title and Mining Payments

Income Tax, Native Title and Mining Payments evaluates existing income tax regimes for mining payments made under the Native Title Act and the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. This is the fourth volume of the Wolters Kluwer, CCH and Australasian Tax Teachers Association (ATTA) Doctoral Series and w... Read more

Published: Oct 2014

Understanding Accounting Principles

OVERVIEW Understanding Accounting Principles is an abridged version of the full text of the Australian Master Bookkeepers Guide - 3rd edition. The title uses simple language so that readers with a non-accounting background will find it easy to understand Practical in nature and contains numer... Read more

Published: Jun 2011

Finders Keepers: How to attract and retain great employees

How do you find and keep talented staff? In the face of a growing skills shortage, this is one of the biggest issues facing business and HR managers today. In Finders Keepers, ten Australian businesses tell us the secrets of their success. OVERVIEW Finders Keepers, based on genuine Austr... Read more

Published: Aug 2008

The Accountant as an Expert Witness

OVERVIEW A 200 page book on forensic accounting. It is a practical guide to help prepare any qualified accountant who may need to appear as an expert witness in a court or before a tribunal or forum. It would also be of use to legal practitioners who retain/train accountants for such appear... Read more

Published: Jan 2007

45th Anniversary Australian Family Law Cases Special Edition

Celebrating 45 years of case reporting in Australian Family Law Cases.   OVERVIEW: Led by the Honourable Deputy Chief Justice Robert McClelland of the Family Court of Australia, a specialist case selection panel has chosen the most significant family law cases from the commencement ... Read more

Contract Law in Context

Contract Law in Context was previously published by CCH Australia. Contract Law in Context presents the law of contract in its commercial context. This new title discusses the principles of contract law by following the life cycle of a commercial contract from negotiation to formation, execut... Read more

Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform

On 25 January 2019 hundreds of people perished when a tailings dam at an iron ore mine in Brazil failed catastrophically. Liquified waste suffocated workers in seconds, and filled the valley below with sludge, destroying lives and livelihoods forever. The Brumadinho tragedy captured the world&... Read more

Disastrous Decisions: The Human and Organisational Causes of the Gulf of Mexico Blowout

Why is Andrew Hopkins’ quiet outrage making the world of work safer? Read the story behind the storyteller. Disastrous Decisions: The Human and Organisational Causes of the Gulf of Mexico Blowout takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to... Read more

Failure to Learn: the BP Texas City refinery disaster

Why is Andrew Hopkins’ quiet outrage making the world of work safer?  Respected OHS expert Professor Andrew Hopkins discusses the causes of a major explosion at the Texas City Oil Refinery on March 23, 2005. The explosion killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. Failure t... Read more