Foreword

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Of course it's safe, trust me! Conceptualising issues of risk management within the `Risk Society'

Denis Smith

Steve Tombs

A case study in risk management: the UK pumped storage business

A. Ian Glendon

Bryan O'Loughlin

Richard T. Booth

Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management: The Need for a paradigm shift?

Clive Smallman

Incentives for loss prevention instead of disaster management by the state in the case of catastrophic risks

Walter R. Stahel

History repeating itself? Expertise, barriers to learning and the precautionary principle

Denis Smith

Jo McCloskey

The social construction and deconstruction of risk

Heather Hopfl

Opening Pandora's box: Stress at work and its implications for emergency management

Denis Smith

Dominic Elliott

Questions of risk and regulation: Hegemony, governance and the US chemical industry

Frank Pearce

Steve Tombs

Injury, death and the deregulation fetish: The politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries

Steve Tombs

Deregulation and BSE

Christopher Gifford

The political economy of risk: Piper Alpha and the British offshore oil industry

M Beck

C Woolfson

Learning the lessons of Piper Alpha? Offshore workers' perceptions of changing levels of risk

David Whyte

Changing perceptions of risk: The Implications for Management

Eve Coles

Denis Smith

Steve Tombs

Index