Audience: The book will be of benefit to scientists, managers, politicians and trainers in academia, business and industry involved in risk analysis, assessment and management, regulation and deregulation of risk, crisis management and accidents and disasters.

Of course it’s safe, trust me! Conceptualising issues of risk management within the `Risk Society’.- A case study in risk management: the UK pumped storage business.- Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management: The Need for a paradigm shift?.- Incentives for loss prevention instead of disaster management by the state in the case of catastrophic risks.- History repeating itself? Expertise, barriers to learning and the precautionary principle.- The social construction and deconstruction of risk.- Opening Pandora’s box: Stress at work and its implications for emergency management.- Questions of risk and regulation: Hegemony, governance and the US chemical industry.- Injury, death and the deregulation fetish: The politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries.- Deregulation and BSE.- The political economy of risk: Piper Alpha and the British offshore oil industry.- Learning the lessons of Piper Alpha? Offshore workers’ perceptions of changing levels of risk.- Changing perceptions of risk: The Implications for Management.

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