Risk Management and SocietyEve Coles, Denis Smith, Steve Tombs Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 M03 9 - 302 pages Recent events like the BSE and GM food crises, and the Concorde crash in July 2000, have illustrated that large private and public sector organisations are vulnerable and can suffer from major disruption to their business. Awareness of the need to develop expertise in risk management has grown and as a result new programs of research and teaching in risk and crisis management are being developed at universities. The contributions to this volume have been selected by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to risk, and by considering the implications for management, business and society. The contributions are written by recognized experts in their fields and represent a unique collection of papers on the topic. Audience: The book will be of benefit to scientists, managers, politicians and trainers in academia, business and industry involved in risk analysis, assessment and management, regulation and deregulation of risk, crisis management and accidents and disasters. |
Contents
Risk and the Qualitative Dimension | |
Endpiece | |
ABrief History ofDinorwig | |
ASBESTOS | |
REFERENCES | |
Classification and the Power to Define | |
REFERENCES | |
PTSD and Managerial Intervention | |
Questions of Risk and Regulation | |
TheEmergence ofRisk Assessment | |
Injury Death and the Deregulation Fetish | |
Other Risks and their Management | |
The Knowledge Society | |
liability and blame | |
Specification and regulation | |
Natural catastrophes | |
The role of insurance in the economic development and | |
History Repeating Itself? | |
The BSE crisis | |
TheRise and Fall of the Deregulation Fetish? | |
Piper Alpha and the British | |
Industry Resistance and Leadership in the Third Phase | |
REFERENCES Learningthe Lessons of Piper Alpha? | |
The Contextfor theNew Offshore SafetyRegime | |
Reduction inthe workforce | |
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