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Authors: Peter R. White, A. Hopkins, A. Hale
ISBN-13: 9780080441269, ISBN-10: 0080441262
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: 1ST
For regulators and policy makers in government, industry, trade unions, certification bodies and supranational agencies; safety managers and consultants subject to or working for regulators; and researchers and teachers in safety science, system safety, industrial law and policy studies, management, industrial sociology and politics.
List of Contributors | ||
Foreword | ||
1 | Issues in the Regulation of Safety: Setting the Scene | 1 |
Pt. I | The Changing Face of Regulation | 13 |
2 | New Technologies and Work. Pulverization of Risk - Privatization of Trauma? | 15 |
3 | Two Models of Major Hazard Regulation: Recent Australian Experience | 31 |
4 | The EU Seveso II Directive: An Example of a Regulation that Could Act as an Initiator to Raise the Major Hazard Safety Awareness within Society | 43 |
5 | The Development of New Safety Regulations in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry | 57 |
6 | Oil and Gas Industry Regulation: From Detailed Technical Inspection to Assessment of Safety Management | 79 |
7 | The Development of Safety Regulation in the Rail Industry | 109 |
8 | Towards Goal-Directed Regulation in a Competitive World: Do We Underestimate the Risk of Changes in the Regulatory System? | 127 |
9 | The Challenge To Supervision of Nuclear Power Plants under Conditions of Liberalization and Globalization | 141 |
10 | New Frontiers for Regulatory Interaction within the UK Nuclear Industry | 163 |
11 | Regulatory Culture: Balancing the Different Demands of Regulatory Practice in the Nuclear Industry | 175 |
Pt. II | New Frontiers in Regulation | 193 |
12 | Medical Device Technology and Patient Protection: Challenges for Regulation and Legislation | 195 |
13 | Biotechnology and Social Control | 217 |
14 | Certification, a Tool for Safety Regulation? | 233 |
15 | Insights into Safety Regulation | 253 |
Keywords | 285 |