QUEST FOR A MODEL OF CORPORATE CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MINES SAFETY IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The study focuses on the concept of mines safety crimes and elaborates the business criminal
liability within the domain of criminology. The businesses are responsible for such careless
behaviour while workers are equally liable for their reckless conduct for not taking health and
safety measures to avoid accidents. The court documents, reports of casualties and workers
ignorance and lack of awareness are major causes of fatalities and accidents inthe workplace.The
theme of the study was with the major belief that workers are reckless, incompetent and
inherently careless, failing which often results in injury and death. There was considerable
discussion regarding it and it was supported by court manuscripts, government officials and
fatality reports.Through the traditional approach, employers were described as morally good,
reputable whereby workers were labeled careless, discourteous. The study arose questions as to
why there is always a need to regulate corporations when the workers are at fault and why
awareness campaigns are only directed towards the habits of workers rather than changing the
corporate policies and regulations.