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In the Interests of Safety: The absurd rules that blight our lives and how we can change them - Brossura
An entertaining and fascinating examination of the rules and regulations that dominate everyday life—how they came about, who they serve, and whether they actually make us safer
Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his fountain pen at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door? Can a cellphone really cause a major explosion at a gas station? Is there really a good reason why you should be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep? These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But this engrossing dissection of global health, safety, and security regulations digs a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the instructions we obey without questioning their creators' motives. The conclusions range from the startling to the staggering, and in presenting them the authors argue that many safety rules are not as unassailable as we think, and seek to empower us to question the people and organizations who come up with them in the first place.
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In the Interests of Safety has debunked some of the myths that blight our lives (Jane Moore The Sun)
[ In the Interests of Safety] tells you how to stand up to a jobsworth with knowledge, courtesy and common sense ( The Times)
In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences . . . In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses (Michael Bywater Literary Review)
[An] excellent, sceptical take on safety culture ( BBC Focus)
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[ In the Interests of Safety] tells you how to stand up to a jobsworth with knowledge, courtesy and common sense ( The Times)
In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences . . . In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses (Michael Bywater Literary Review)
[An] excellent, sceptical take on safety culture ( BBC Focus)
Michael Hanlon is the Senior Science Commentator on the Daily Mail, and a writer known for his ability to make science accessible. He is the author of The Worlds of Galileo: The Inside Story of NASA's Mission to Jupiter (Constable, 2001).
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- EditoreSphere
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 0751553514
- ISBN 13 9780751553512
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine272
- Valutazione libreria
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