Law firms have been producing newsletters and case summaries for a long time.  Ostensibly these are for marketing purposes but occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals have benefited from these potted histories and examinations, even though the perspectives are often limited to the legal precedents.  Over the last few years though, law firms have been producing longer documents such as annual or mid-year reviews that go well beyond workplace safety.  The latest of these has been produced by Corrs Chambers Westgarth. By looking broadly at social, regulatory and economic pressures on Australia Corrs’ Mid-Year Review provides a useful context to OHS that safety regulators rarely do.  Nor do government agencies, such as the Productivity Commission, although they try.  Corrs has applied five themes to…