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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

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Author Biography: Peter R. White

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Foreword
1Issues in the Regulation of Safety: Setting the Scene1
Pt. IThe Changing Face of Regulation13
2New Technologies and Work. Pulverization of Risk - Privatization of Trauma?15
3Two Models of Major Hazard Regulation: Recent Australian Experience31
4The EU Seveso II Directive: An Example of a Regulation that Could Act as an Initiator to Raise the Major Hazard Safety Awareness within Society43
5The Development of New Safety Regulations in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry57
6Oil and Gas Industry Regulation: From Detailed Technical Inspection to Assessment of Safety Management79
7The Development of Safety Regulation in the Rail Industry109
8Towards Goal-Directed Regulation in a Competitive World: Do We Underestimate the Risk of Changes in the Regulatory System?127
9The Challenge To Supervision of Nuclear Power Plants under Conditions of Liberalization and Globalization141
10New Frontiers for Regulatory Interaction within the UK Nuclear Industry163
11Regulatory Culture: Balancing the Different Demands of Regulatory Practice in the Nuclear Industry175
Pt. IINew Frontiers in Regulation193
12Medical Device Technology and Patient Protection: Challenges for Regulation and Legislation195
13Biotechnology and Social Control217
14Certification, a Tool for Safety Regulation?233
15Insights into Safety Regulation253
Keywords285

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