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Living with risk: a management question

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Public authorities started to be really involved in risk management of hazardous materials some 30 years ago. Recent developments have led to fresh attention for this matter and many further developments are underway. The history of risk management and safety regulation is one of strongly variable interest, forgotten lessons and rude awakenings. The impetus exerted by accidents is short lived. Safety cases become documents to satisfy regulation rather than instruments to reduce risk. Deregulation, privatisation, and outsourcing pose new challenges to safety and risk management. Some of the unfortunate side effects have already become apparent. This invariably leads to the next disaster, which will have a striking resemblance to the previous one when abstracted from the immediate technological context. Lessons can be learned if we really want. The question remains: ‘Do we?’.

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  • Ale, Ben J.M., 2005. "Living with risk: a management question," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 90(2), pages 196-205.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:90:y:2005:i:2:p:196-205
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.10.015
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