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Risk, Responsibility and Robens : The Transformation of the British System of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, 1961-1974
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Sirrs, Christopher (2016) Risk, Responsibility and Robens : The Transformation of the British System of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, 1961-1974. In: Crook, Tom and Esbester, Mike, (eds.) Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c 1800?2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-276. ISBN 9781137467447
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Abstract
Over the last twenty years, three short words have come to dominate many discussions about the control of risks: 'health and safety'. In colloquial use, the term embodies a multitude of concerns about the impact of everyday actions on the bodies and minds of individuals; it also commonly conflates what are often separate areas of statutory regulation, particularly road safety, food safety and environmental regulations. Together with two other words often uttered in the same sentence, 'gone mad', 'health and safety' is often used as a kind of shorthand for bureaucracy, and the whole gamut of rules and regulations that have evolved in response to the risks of everyday life.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
Place of Publication: | Basingstoke | ||||
ISBN: | 9781137467447 | ||||
Book Title: | Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c 1800?2000 | ||||
Editor: | Crook, Tom and Esbester, Mike | ||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 249-276 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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