CORPORATE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARDS : a comparison of current practice.: a comparison of current practice. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Kasperson, Roger E
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Study Sample: Large and Wealthy Corporations; An Industry-Wide Perspective; Conceptual Approach; Organization; 2 Managing Hazards at PETROCHEM Corporation; The Structure of Hazard Management; Product-Safety Management; Occupational Hazard Management; Conclusions; 3 Managing Occupational Hazards at a PHARMACHEM Corporation Plant; Production of PRODUCT-A; Hazards of PRODUCT-A Production; Control Actions for the Hazards of PRODUCT-A; Occupational Hazard Management Conclusions4 Managing Product Hazards at Volvo Car Corporation; Hazard-Management Organization; Safety of Volvo Cars and Company Behavior; Hazard Management and Quality Control at Volvo; The Safety-Information Feedback System; Conclusions; 5 Managing Occupational and Catastrophic Hazards at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant; A History of Controversy; A Tour of the Plant; Occupational Health at Rocky Flats; Assessing and Managing Catastrophic Hazards; Summary and Conclusions; 6 Union Carbide Corporation and the Bhopal Disaster; Union Carbide Corporation and Its Hazard-Management Programs Union Carbide Comes to BhopalEarly Warnings; The Accident; Corporate Hazard Management; Concluding Note; 7 Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research; Characteristics of Current Practice; An Agenda of Needed Research; The Future of Corporate Hazard Management; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ROUTLEDGE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume.)
• Subjects: 658.382; Industrial hygiene; Industrial safety; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429042706; 0429042701; 9780429693410; 0429693419; 9780429733437; 0429733437; 9780429713422; 0429713428
• Related ISBNs: 0367012847; 9780367012847
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