By David Eves
This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5
Disasters: studying the teachings for a more secure world is either a tribute to the sufferers of previous safeguard mess ups and a caution opposed to complacency and slicing corners at the present time. It additionally recognises the achievements of overall healthiness and protection execs and others in studying the teachings of earlier error. As Trevor Kletz has written, "Someone has paid the 'tuition fess'. there isn't any want so that you can pay them again."
Illustrated all through in color, the e-book appears to be like at over ninety injuries, incidents and defense disasters. a few, like Aberfan, Chernobyl and Hillsborough, are recognized just by a unmarried position identify. Others have now light from our collective recognition yet nonetheless have vital classes for us at the present time, resembling the early fires, explosions and mining failures that cleared the path for higher security administration.
Disasters: studying the teachings for a more secure world offers:
- a description of occasions from 1800 to the current day
- a wide selection of incidents, from explosions and fires to floods, toxins and human and animal sick healthiness
- information at the heritage to every incident, what occurred and the teachings that have been learnt
- an exploration of the politics of catastrophe and threat reduction
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