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For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by
a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening.
Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to
manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately
1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us
understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have
been governed. It demonstrates that the category of 'risk', broadly
defined, provides a new means of historicising some key
developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and
policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational
health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and
ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common
context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing
so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British
society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed
present in some much needed historical perspective.
What do seat belts, life jackets and anti-jack knife technology
have in common? They were all the subjects of campaigns run by the
British Safety Council since its inception in 1957. James Tye, its
charismatic founder and leader for nearly 40 years, created the
British Safety Council to bring about a transformation in how Great
Britain viewed safety and health. In 1957, hundreds, if not
thousands, of workers were killed in accidents and James marshalled
every conceivable technique to save lives, including PR stunts,
training, lobbying for better laws and, crucially, what he called
'propaganda', in the form of posters and other communication tools.
In 2014, a long-lost collection of posters, papers and letters were
found gathering dust in a warehouse. The British Safety Council,
wanting to mark its 60-year history and its role in reducing deaths
at work, decided to preserve the collection and commissioned
historian Mike Esbester to trace the history of health and safety
in Britain from the late 1960s through the posters and photographs
of the time. Transformative Propaganda: Opening the Archives of the
British Safety Council offers a fascinating and vivid insight into
the social and political realities of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
through a wealth of historical documents, press cuttings,
correspondence, photographs and posters. It offers a truly
extraordinary window onto the evolution of health and safety within
the UK and richly deserves a place on the bookshelf of every safety
professional.
This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in
post-1960 British public life. Since 2010 health and safety has
appeared to be in crisis, being attacked by press, politicians and
public alike, but are these claims of crisis accurate? How have
understandings of health and safety changed over the past 60 years?
By exploring the history, culture, and operation of health and
safety in contemporary Britain, this book provides a new assessment
of an understudied, but surprisingly far-reaching, part of the
British political and social landscape. Combining archival research
with focus group, social survey and oral history testimony, the
book examines the historical background to health and safety, how
health and safety has been enacted in public and in the workplace,
the impact of changing economic, occupational and social structures
on the operation of health and safety, and the conflicts and
interests that have shaped the area.
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by
a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening.
Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to
manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately
1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us
understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have
been governed. It demonstrates that the category of 'risk', broadly
defined, provides a new means of historicising some key
developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and
policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational
health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and
ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common
context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing
so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British
society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed
present in some much needed historical perspective.
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