Changing regulation
Subtitle: controlling risks in society
By: edited by Barry Kirwan, Andrew Hale, Andrew Hopkins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780585473833
Subjects: Industrial safety; Risk management; Safety regulations; HEALTH & FITNESS; Safety
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Issues in the regulation of safety : setting the scene / Andrew Hopkins & Andrew Hale; title: New technologies and work. Pulverization of risk; title: privatization of trauma? / Tore J. Larsson; title: Two models of major hazard regulation : recent Australian experience / Andrew Hopkins; title: The EU Seveso II directive : an example of a regulation that could act as an initiator to raise the major hazard safety awareness within society / J.I.H. Oh; title: The development of new safety regulations in the Norwegian oil and gas industry / Jan Hovden; title: Oil and gas industry regulation : from detailed technical inspection to assessment of safety management / Andrew Hale, Louis Goossens and Ibo v. d. Poel; title: The development of safety regulation in the rail industry / David Maidment; title: Towards goal-directed regulation in a competitive world : do we underestimate the risk of changes in the regulatory system? / Gerhard Becker; title: The challenge to supervision of nuclear power plants under conditions of liberalization and globalization / Jürgen Walther; title: New frontiers for regulatory interaction within the UK nuclear industry / Jeremy C. Williams; title: Regulatory culture : balancing the different demands of regulatory practice in the nuclear industry / T. Reiman and L. Norros; title: Medical device technology and patient protection : challenges for regulation and legislation / B.A.J.M. de Mol and G.L. van Gaalen; title: Biotechnology and social control / Michael Baram; title: Certification, a tool for safety regulation? / Harry Gundlach; title: Insights into safety regulation / Barry Kirwan, Andrew Hale & Andrew Hopkins.