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Theme : risk
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Another normal disaster
I'm fascinated that we apparently already know what caused the derailment in Cumbria. Some bars separating the point blades broke and the inspection to check they were OK didn't happen. Job done. Blaim laid. Except that accidents are always, always more complicated and more interesting than that. I've just been having another look at Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow, emeritus Yale Sociology professor. It's a wonderful book, written in 1984, post-Three Mile Island but pre-Chernobyl and...
from : jackstilgoe
26th February 2007
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Cleanroom Technology - Current industry news and reports
Cleanroom Technology - Current industry news and reports
from : mollywebb
3rd January 2007
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Comment is free: The play's the thing
Tim Gill on play and risk
from : petebradwell
10th November 2006
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Let Our Children Roam Free
Tim Gill writes about risk and children for the Ecologist
from : petebradwell
10th November 2006
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Pensions, risk and the social contract
It's hardly original to argue that we're entering an age of greater risk. From employment to healthcare, the trend is towards less certainty and greater individual responsibility. But if this is a renegotiation of the social contract, shouldn't individuals be demanding a little more in return? Shouldn't the payoff for greater risk be greater control over our lives and communities?I started thinking about this because of pension reform. The Turner commission's idea is to create a new...
from : simonparker
14th August 2006
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ASIS
ASIS International, with more than 33,000 members, is the largest international organization for professionals responsible for security, including managers and directors of security. In addition, corporate executives and other management personnel, as well as consultants, architects, attorneys, and federal, state, and local law enforcement, are becoming involved with ASIS to better understand the constant changes in security issues and solutions.
from : charlieedwards
30th June 2006
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International Security Management Association
ISMA's mission is to provide and support an international forum of selected security executives whose combined expertise will be utilized in a synergistic manner in developing, organizing, assimilating, and sharing knowledge within security disciplines for the ultimate purpose of enhancing professional and business standards.
from : charlieedwards
30th June 2006
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The Cranfield Resilience Centre
The purpose of the Cranfield University Resilience Centre is "to improve the capacity of organisations to respond to emergency and disruptive challenges - whether natural, accidental or deliberate - through the provision of relevant education, training, research and operational support".
from : charlieedwards
30th June 2006
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Risk and Security Management
The course has been developed in conjunction with the private security industry and it aims to equip security professionals and those working in occupations with a significant security role, the ability to understand and apply relevant approaches, techniques and processes from both general management and their own specialist management field.
from : charlieedwards
30th June 2006
