1st Edition

Corporate Management Of Health And Safety Hazards A Comparison Of Current Practice

By Roger E. Kasperson Copyright 1988
    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book aims at a better understanding of the current practice of hazard management by large corporations. In-depth studies of individual corporations provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the advances and problems inherent in industrial safety management.

    1. Introduction 2. Managing Hazards at Petrochem Corporation 3. Managing Occupational Hazards at a Pharmachem Corporation Plant 4. Managing Product Hazards at Volvo Car Corporation 5. Managing Occupational and Catastrophic Hazards at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant 6. Union Carbide Corporation and the Bhopal Disaster 7. Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research