Disasters: Learning the Lessons for a Safer World - Brossura

Eves, David

 
9781138920194: Disasters: Learning the Lessons for a Safer World
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1138920193 ISBN 13: 9781138920194
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2010

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This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5

Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world is both a tribute to the victims of past safety failures and a warning against complacency and cutting corners today. It also recognises the achievements of health and safety professionals and others in learning the lessons of past mistakes. As Trevor Kletz has written, "Someone has paid the 'tuition fess'. There is no need for you to pay them again."

Illustrated throughout in colour, the book looks at over 90 accidents, incidents and safety failures. Some, like Aberfan, Chernobyl and Hillsborough, are known simply by a single place name. Others have now faded from our collective consciousness but still have important lessons for us today, such as the early fires, explosions and mining disasters that paved the way for better safety management.

Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world offers:

  • a description of events from 1800 to the present day

  • a wide range of incidents, from explosions and fires to floods, pollution and human and animal ill health

  • information on the background to each incident, what happened and the lessons that were learnt

  • an exploration of the politics of disaster and risk reduction

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Eves CB is a former Deputy Director-General of the Health and Safety Executive and has over 45 years' experience in the health and safety profession. He has also worked closely with DEFRA on the regulation of animal health and with the Health Protection Agency on environmental health.

He is co-author of Questioning Performance: the director's essential guide to health, safety and the environment, also published by IOSH.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1138920193
ISBN 13 
9781138920194
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Germania

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9781138144231: Disasters: Learning the Lessons for a Safer World

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1138144231 ISBN 13:  9781138144231
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2016
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