David Eves

Disasters (eBook, ePUB)

Learning the Lessons for a Safer World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world recognises the achievements of health and safety professionals and others in learning the lessons of past mistakes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134957699
• Artikelnr.: 45095794

Autorenporträt

David Eves CB is a former Deputy Director-General of the Health and Safety Executive and has over 45 years' experience in the health and safety profession. He has also worked closely with DEFRA on the regulation of animal health and with the Health Protection Agency on environmental health.

He is co-author of Questioning Performance: the director's essential guide to health, safety and the environment, also published by IOSH.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Too young to die
2. Flixborough
Limberg and Enschede
3. Deadly fires
4. More conflagrations
5. Gas explosions
6. Ignorance is not blissful
7. Seveso and other environmental calamities
8. Unwelcome off-site consequences
9. High explosives
10. Maritime disasters
11. Marine pollution
12. Offshore catastrophes
13. Aviation accidents
14. Catastrophes in space
15. Nuclear disasters
16. Trouble in store
17. Buncefield oil storage depot
18. The price of coal
19. Railways
20. Crowd crushes
21. Stadium tragedies
22. The human factor
23. Safety culture under strain
24. Structural collapses
25. Floods
26. Silent killers at work
27. Public health
28. Animal catastrophes
29. Bhopal
30. Reducing hazards and risks
31. The politics of disaster
32. Establishing a culture of safety