Fatal Accidents and Catastrophic Losses How Prosperity and Safety Are Linked
| Author/creator | Lancaster, J. F. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Sawston : Woodhead Publishing Limited |
| Description | 144 p. 23.400 x 015.600 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Engineering 2009 |
| Subjects |
| Summary | Annotation Accidents are generally regarded as unexpected events, which do not fall into any predictable pattern. A common assumption is that safety is best assured by laws, regulations and procedures. This thought-provoking book studies fatal accident trends in industry and transport and observes how they correlate with other measures of human activity such as national productivity. Incidence is found to correlate inversely with economic growth such that, as a rule, more prosperous nations have a lower accident mortality. A formal theoretical model is proposed and discussed that is consistent with this pattern of events. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781845695309 |
| ISBN | 1845695305 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Stock number | 00051468 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |