Hans-Jürgen Bischoff (ed.)

Risks in Modern Society

Herausgegeben:Bischoff, Hans-Jürgen

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Produktbeschreibung

The International Section on Machine and System Safety was founded in 1975 to deal with questions on occupational risks in this ?eld at the inter- tional level. It is a member of the Special Commission on Prevention of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). The Special Commission is a body within ISSA that focuses on work-related risks. It has 11 inter- tional Sections as members. ISSA was founded in 1927 with its headquarters in Geneva. It is working worldwide in over 150 countries with nearly 370 member institutions from all ?elds of social security. TheSection on Machine and System Safety, when it was founded, had its focus on machine safety, particularly on the ma- facturing of safe machinery, on assisting developing countries to be able to buy safe used machinery, and on delivering clear operating instructions. Our members and partners are: - institutions for safety and health at work; - insurance companies dealing with work-related risks; - research institutions; and - various enterprises, e.g. manufacturers, importers and users of machines and systems/installations. We thus bring together the experiences of our members and partners. The role of the operators soon grew in importance, and their capability for ha- ling machinery became an important factor for the safety and success of enterprises. The growing importance and complexity of handling different man-machine-environment situations created new challenges and led to - larging the Section's tasks to machine and system safety.

Produktdetails

• Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 13
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 12219193, 978-1-4020-8288-7
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9781402082887
• ISBN-10: 1402082886
• Artikelnr.: 23459590

Autorenporträt

Hans-Jürgen Bischoff, ISSA Section Machine and System Safety, Mannheim, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Challenges to Global Governance in the Changing World of Work.- Risk Governance: Combining Facts and Values in Risk Management.- Governance of Occupational Safety and Health and Environmental Risks.- New Emerging Risks.- How to Develop a "Safe Society".- Lessons Learnt - Road Ahead: Summary and Proposal for Golden Rules in Health and Safety.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This multiauthored work, volume 13 of the 'Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality' series, addresses risk and risk management in a more general fashion ... . The book is intended for academic course work ... and as a resource for practitioners or researchers in fields such as safety and risk assessment and management, emergency planning, reliability and vulnerability assessment and management, and quality assurance. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners." (R. E. Buntrock, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)