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Changing Regulation - Controlling Risks in Society (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Changing Regulation - Controlling Risks in Society (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Safety regulation is society's way of keeping the genie of
technology in the bottle, whilst still exploiting its power for
creating wealth and change. It is a difficult compromise to make.
Regulators often have a thankless task. If all seems to go well
they are painted as too repressive and anti-technological; if
disaster strikes, the searchlight of media attention increasingly
focuses on them, looking for lax enforcement, blind eyes being
turned and cosy relations with the regulated. This title explores
the dilemmas of the regulator through case studies presented by the
regulators themselves and through research-based analyses from
different disciplines of the workings of the regulators and the
regulatory system. More importantly it surveys the tools available
to resolve the dilemmas and asks what we know about their successes
and shortcomings and what can be learned over the boundaries of
industries and technologies about the principles of successful
safety regulation. Chapters are written by authors from seven
countries, with an international perspective. They examine the role
of certification, safety cases, strictly enforced detailed rules,
professional regulation and self-regulation. The text covers new
risks such as those from medical devices and biotechnology, as well
as the well-known fields of nuclear power, chemical plants, mining,
oil and gas production, railways and the traditionally difficult
area of small companies.
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