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Occupational Risk Control - Predicting and Preventing the Unwanted (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Occupational Risk Control - Predicting and Preventing the Unwanted (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In Occupational Risk Control, Derek Viner brings together the
historical and theoretical aspects of his subject into a coherent
whole and then connects them with the needs both of practitioners
and educators. The historical background, from early societies
through the industrial revolution and into the early 20th Century
is discussed as a means of understanding the individual and
community prejudices and presumptions that underly society and that
impede our effective control of risk. The author then brings
together and develops the practical application of three hitherto
disparate strands of scientific understanding of risk: energy
damage, risk philosophy and engineering risk analysis. He also
draws attention to the fact that the geological and botanical
sciences can contribute much to our understanding of how to set
about classifying (and hence better understanding) the phenomenon
of damage and loss. To this mix, is added the contribution of law
to our understanding of moral obligations for the control of risk
and that of statistics to our understanding of the management of
uncertainty. Viner argues that amongst the observable consequences
of the absence of a holistic and science-based approach is
ineffective legislation with limited vision as well as the
prevalence of belief-based commercial risk and safety management
systems of unproven value. The net effect of this absence, he
suggests, is to be seen in the periodic occurrence of disasters of
the magnitude of the Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil spill.
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