Andrew Hopkins

Relation between stellar mass and star-formation activity in galaxies (2009)

Mobasher, Bahram, Dahlen, Tomas, Hopkins, Andrew, Scoville, Nick Z., Capak, Peter, Rich, R. Michael, ...

For a mass-selected sample of 66544 galaxies with photometric redshifts (z phot) from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), we examine the evolution of star-formation activity as a function of...

Generation of a statistical model of the whole femur incorporating shape and material property distribution (2008)

Bryan, Rebecca, Mohan, Surya, Hopkins, Andrew, Nair, Prasanth, Taylor, Mark

Orthopaedic implant designs undergo extensive preclinical testing to ensure their reliability but in use there performance can vary significantly between patients. A possible reason for this is that...

Studying organisational cultures and their effects on safety (2006)

Hopkins, Andrew

How do organisational cultures influence safety? To answer this question requires a strategy for investigating organisational culture. There are various research strategies available. By far the most...

Studying organisational cultures and their effects on safety (2006)

Hopkins, Andrew

How do organisational cultures influence safety? To answer this question requires a strategy for investigating organisational culture. There are various research strategies available. By far the most...

Studying organisational cultures and their effects on safety (2006)

Hopkins, Andrew

How do organisational cultures influence safety? To answer this question requires a strategy for investigating organisational culture. There are various research strategies available. By far the most...

Studying organisational cultures and their effects on safety (2006)

Hopkins, Andrew

How do organisational cultures influence safety? To answer this question requires a strategy for investigating organisational culture. There are various research strategies available. By far the most...

Studying organisational cultures and their effects on safety (2006)

Hopkins, Andrew

How do organisational cultures influence safety? To answer this question requires a strategy for investigating organisational culture. There are various research strategies available. By far the most...

The Gretley coal mine disaster: reflections on the finding that mine managers were to blame (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This is truly a working paper, a step along the way in a larger project that is intended to culminate in a book on the issue of individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. The paper is...

An evaluation of certain criticisms of the NSW OHS Act (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This working paper is part of a proposed larger work on individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. It is therefore not fully self-contained. It may be useful to read first the companion...

A model for best practice safety regulation in the mining industry (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew, Wilkinson, Peter

The authors were engaged by the West Australian government in early 2005 to provide advice on best practice safety regulation for the mining industry in that state. The advice was provided in the...

New strategies for safety regulators: beyond compliance monitoring (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

It is often assumed that the role of regulatory agencies is to bring about compliance with regulation. This makes sense in some contexts. For example, consumer protection agencies aim, among other...

What are we to make of safe behaviour programs? (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Safe behaviour programs are currently a popular strategy for improving safety in large organizations. This paper provides a critical look at the assumptions which underly such programs and identifies...

A corporate dilemma: to be a learning organisation or to minimise liability (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Companies are faced with a dilemma when it comes to information about safety problems. Should they seek out such information and learn from it, so as to reduce the risk of accidents, or should they...

The Gretley coal mine disaster: reflections on the finding that mine managers were to blame (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This is truly a working paper, a step along the way in a larger project that is intended to culminate in a book on the issue of individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. The paper is...

An evaluation of certain criticisms of the NSW OHS Act (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This working paper is part of a proposed larger work on individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. It is therefore not fully self-contained. It may be useful to read first the companion...

A corporate dilemma: to be a learning organisation or to minimise liability (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Companies are faced with a dilemma when it comes to information about safety problems. Should they seek out such information and learn from it, so as to reduce the risk of accidents, or should they...

A model for best practice safety regulation in the mining industry (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew, Wilkinson, Peter

The authors were engaged by the West Australian government in early 2005 to provide advice on best practice safety regulation for the mining industry in that state. The advice was provided in the...

What are we to make of safe behaviour programs? (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Safe behaviour programs are currently a popular strategy for improving safety in large organizations. This paper provides a critical look at the assumptions which underly such programs and identifies...

New strategies for safety regulators: beyond compliance monitoring (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

It is often assumed that the role of regulatory agencies is to bring about compliance with regulation. This makes sense in some contexts. For example, consumer protection agencies aim, among other...

The Gretley coal mine disaster: reflections on the finding that mine managers were to blame (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This is truly a working paper, a step along the way in a larger project that is intended to culminate in a book on the issue of individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. The paper is...

An evaluation of certain criticisms of the NSW OHS Act (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This working paper is part of a proposed larger work on individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. It is therefore not fully self-contained. It may be useful to read first the companion...

A corporate dilemma: to be a learning organisation or to minimise liability (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Companies are faced with a dilemma when it comes to information about safety problems. Should they seek out such information and learn from it, so as to reduce the risk of accidents, or should they...

A model for best practice safety regulation in the mining industry (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew, Wilkinson, Peter

The authors were engaged by the West Australian government in early 2005 to provide advice on best practice safety regulation for the mining industry in that state. The advice was provided in the...

What are we to make of safe behaviour programs? (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Safe behaviour programs are currently a popular strategy for improving safety in large organizations. This paper provides a critical look at the assumptions which underly such programs and identifies...

New strategies for safety regulators: beyond compliance monitoring (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

It is often assumed that the role of regulatory agencies is to bring about compliance with regulation. This makes sense in some contexts. For example, consumer protection agencies aim, among other...

The Gretley coal mine disaster: reflections on the finding that mine managers were to blame (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This is truly a working paper, a step along the way in a larger project that is intended to culminate in a book on the issue of individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. The paper is...

An evaluation of certain criticisms of the NSW OHS Act (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This working paper is part of a proposed larger work on individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. It is therefore not fully self-contained. It may be useful to read first the companion...

A corporate dilemma: to be a learning organisation or to minimise liability (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Companies are faced with a dilemma when it comes to information about safety problems. Should they seek out such information and learn from it, so as to reduce the risk of accidents, or should they...

A model for best practice safety regulation in the mining industry (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew, Wilkinson, Peter

The authors were engaged by the West Australian government in early 2005 to provide advice on best practice safety regulation for the mining industry in that state. The advice was provided in the...

What are we to make of safe behaviour programs? (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Safe behaviour programs are currently a popular strategy for improving safety in large organizations. This paper provides a critical look at the assumptions which underly such programs and identifies...

New strategies for safety regulators: beyond compliance monitoring (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

It is often assumed that the role of regulatory agencies is to bring about compliance with regulation. This makes sense in some contexts. For example, consumer protection agencies aim, among other...

The Gretley coal mine disaster: reflections on the finding that mine managers were to blame (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This is truly a working paper, a step along the way in a larger project that is intended to culminate in a book on the issue of individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. The paper is...

An evaluation of certain criticisms of the NSW OHS Act (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

This working paper is part of a proposed larger work on individual culpability for corporate OHS offences. It is therefore not fully self-contained. It may be useful to read first the companion...

A corporate dilemma: to be a learning organisation or to minimise liability (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Companies are faced with a dilemma when it comes to information about safety problems. Should they seek out such information and learn from it, so as to reduce the risk of accidents, or should they...

A model for best practice safety regulation in the mining industry (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew, Wilkinson, Peter

The authors were engaged by the West Australian government in early 2005 to provide advice on best practice safety regulation for the mining industry in that state. The advice was provided in the...

What are we to make of safe behaviour programs? (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

Safe behaviour programs are currently a popular strategy for improving safety in large organizations. This paper provides a critical look at the assumptions which underly such programs and identifies...

New strategies for safety regulators: beyond compliance monitoring (2005)

Hopkins, Andrew

It is often assumed that the role of regulatory agencies is to bring about compliance with regulation. This makes sense in some contexts. For example, consumer protection agencies aim, among other...

The Phoenix Deep Survey: Optical and near infrared imaging catalogs (2004)

Sullivan, Mark, Hopkins, Andrew, Afonso, Jose, Georgakakis, Antonis, Chan, Ben, Cram, Lawrence, ...

The Phoenix Deep Survey is a multi-wavelength galaxy survey based on deep 1.4 GHz radio imaging (Hopkins et al., 2003). The primary goal of this survey is to investigate the properties of star...

Distributions of Galaxy Spectral Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)

Yip, Ching-Wa, Connolly, Andrew, Szalay, Alex, Budavari, Tamas, SubbaRao, Mark, Frieman, Joshua, ...

We perform an objective classification of 170,000 galaxy spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using the Karhunen-Lo\`eve (KL) transform. With about one-sixth of the total set of galaxy...

Quantitative risk assessment: a critique (2004)

Hopkins, Andrew

The aim of risk management is identify and reduce risks. But how far do managers need to go in reducing the level of risk? How low is low enough? The law provides one answer to this question. Risks...

Quantitative risk assessment: a critique (2004)

Hopkins, Andrew

The aim of risk management is identify and reduce risks. But how far do managers need to go in reducing the level of risk? How low is low enough? The law provides one answer to this question. Risks...

Quantitative risk assessment: a critique (2004)

Hopkins, Andrew

The aim of risk management is identify and reduce risks. But how far do managers need to go in reducing the level of risk? How low is low enough? The law provides one answer to this question. Risks...

Quantitative risk assessment: a critique (2004)

Hopkins, Andrew

The aim of risk management is identify and reduce risks. But how far do managers need to go in reducing the level of risk? How low is low enough? The law provides one answer to this question. Risks...

Quantitative risk assessment: a critique (2004)

Hopkins, Andrew

The aim of risk management is identify and reduce risks. But how far do managers need to go in reducing the level of risk? How low is low enough? The law provides one answer to this question. Risks...

Star-Forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- The View from Pittsburgh (2003)

Schulte-Ladbeck, Regina E., Miller, Christopher J., Hopp, Ulrich, Hopkins, Andrew, Nichol, Robert C., Voges, Wolfgang, ...

We used data from the Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in order to define a catalog of about 13,000 star-forming galaxies (SFG). We discuss the results of two projects....

The Environment of AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Gomez, Percy, Hopkins, Andrew, Bernardi, Mariangela

We present the observed fraction of galaxies with an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) as a function of environment in the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using 4921 galaxies...

Hdelta-Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: The Catalog (2003)

Goto, Tomotsugu, Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher J., Bernardi, Mariangela, Hopkins, Andrew, Tremonti, Christy, ...

[Abridged] We present here a new and homogeneous sample of 3340 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) based solely on the observed strength of their Hdelta absorption line. These...

Safety culture, mindfulness and safe behaviour: converging ideas? (2002)

Hopkins, Andrew

Jim Reason’s book, Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents, is probably best known for its “Swiss cheese” model of how accidents occur, as well as for its distinction between active...

Galaxy Star-Formation as a Function of Environment in the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)

Gomez, Percy, Nichol, Robert, Miller, Chris, Balogh, Michael, Goto, Tomotsugu, Zabludoff, Ann, ...

(Abridged) We present in this paper a detailed analysis of the effect of environment on the star-formation activity of galaxies within the EDR of the SDSS. We have used the Halpha emission line to...

Safety culture, mindfulness and safe behaviour: converging ideas? (2002)

Hopkins, Andrew

Jim Reason’s book, Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents, is probably best known for its “Swiss cheese” model of how accidents occur, as well as for its distinction between active...

Safety culture, mindfulness and safe behaviour: converging ideas? (2002)

Hopkins, Andrew

Jim Reason’s book, Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents, is probably best known for its “Swiss cheese” model of how accidents occur, as well as for its distinction between active...

Safety culture, mindfulness and safe behaviour: converging ideas? (2002)

Hopkins, Andrew

Jim Reason’s book, Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents, is probably best known for its “Swiss cheese” model of how accidents occur, as well as for its distinction between active...

Safety culture, mindfulness and safe behaviour: converging ideas? (2002)

Hopkins, Andrew

Jim Reason’s book, Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents, is probably best known for its “Swiss cheese” model of how accidents occur, as well as for its distinction between active...

Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Astrophysical Data Analysis (2001)

Miller, Christopher J., Genovese, Christopher, Nichol, Robert C., Wasserman, Larry, Connolly, Andrew, Reichart, Daniel, ...

The False Discovery Rate (FDR) is a new statistical procedure to control the number of mistakes made when performing multiple hypothesis tests, i.e. when comparing many data against a given model...

A Comparison of Independent Star Formation Diagnostics for a UV-Selected Sample of Nearby Galaxies (2001)

Sullivan, Mark, Mobasher, Bahram, Chan, Ben, Cram, Lawrence, Ellis, Richard, Treyer, Marie, ...

We present results from a decimetric radio survey undertaken with the Very Large Array as part of a longer term goal to inter-compare star formation and dust extinction diagnostics, on a galaxy by...

COMPLIANCE WITH WHAT?: The Fundamental Regulatory Question (1994)

HOPKINS, ANDREW

Regulatory research has focused on the question of what is the best strategy: to punish or to persuade? This paper argues that a prior question is: what is it that the regulated should be asked...