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Risks in Modern Society

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Editors:
  1. Hans-Jürgen Bischoff

    1. ISSA Section Machine and System Safety, Germany

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  • Usually only single topics for Risk Management are addressed.
  • For improving chances of company success (performance and competitiveness) in a globalised world a complex, an interdisciplinary approach is needed

Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 13)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Hans-Jürgen Bischoff
    Pages 1-16

  3. Challenges to Global Governance in the Changing World of Work

    • Jorma Rantanen
    Pages 17-59

  4. Risk Governance: Combining Facts and Values in Risk Management

    • Ortwin Renn
    Pages 61-125

  5. Governance of Occupational Safety and Health and Environmental Risks

    • Siegfried Radandt, Jorma Rantanen, Ortwin Renn
    Pages 127-258

  6. New Emerging Risks

    • Ortwin Renn, Siegfried Radandt
    Pages 259-283

  7. How to Develop a “Safe Society”

    • Domenico Geraci, Leonard Sassano
    Pages 285-309

  8. Lessons Learnt – Road Ahead: Summary and Proposal for Golden Rules in Health and Safety

    • Alfred Sutter
    Pages 311-329

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 330-330
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About this book

The International Section on Machine and System Safety was founded in 1975 to deal with questions on occupational risks in this ?eld at the inter- tional level. It is a member of the Special Commission on Prevention of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). The Special Commission is a body within ISSA that focuses on work-related risks. It has 11 inter- tional Sections as members. ISSA was founded in 1927 with its headquarters in Geneva. It is working worldwide in over 150 countries with nearly 370 member institutions from all ?elds of social security. TheSection on Machine and System Safety, when it was founded, had its focus on machine safety, particularly on the ma- facturing of safe machinery, on assisting developing countries to be able to buy safe used machinery, and on delivering clear operating instructions. Our members and partners are: • institutions for safety and health at work; • insurance companies dealing with work-related risks; • research institutions; and • various enterprises, e.g. manufacturers, importers and users of machines and systems/installations. We thus bring together the experiences of our members and partners. The role of the operators soon grew in importance, and their capability for ha- ling machinery became an important factor for the safety and success of enterprises. The growing importance and complexity of handling different man-machine-environment situations created new challenges and led to - larging the Section’s tasks to machine and system safety.

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"This multiauthored work, volume 13 of the ‘Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality’ series, addresses risk and risk management in a more general fashion … . The book is intended for academic course work … and as a resource for practitioners or researchers in fields such as safety and risk assessment and management, emergency planning, reliability and vulnerability assessment and management, and quality assurance. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners." (R. E. Buntrock, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)

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  • ISSA Section Machine and System Safety, Germany

    Hans-Jürgen Bischoff

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