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Playing by the Rules - How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk (Paperback) Loot Price: R265
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Playing by the Rules - How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk (Paperback): Tracey Brown, Michael Hanlon

Playing by the Rules - How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk (Paperback)

Tracey Brown, Michael Hanlon

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Loot Price R265 Discovery Miles 2 650

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Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door? Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station? And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep? These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global health, safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon dig a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the instructions we obey without questioning their creators' motives. Their conclusions range from the startling to the staggering, and in presenting them the authors seek to empower readers to question the people and organisations who come up with them in the first place. Previously published as In the Interests of Safety.

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Imprint: Sphere
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2016
Authors: Tracey Brown • Michael Hanlon
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-7515-6495-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
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LSN: 0-7515-6495-8
Barcode: 9780751564952

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