Designing safety regulations for high-hazard industries /

Designing Safety Regulations for High Hazard Industries, examines key factors relevant to government safety regulators when choosing among regulatory design types, particularly for preventing low-frequency, high consequence events. In such contexts, safety regulations are often scrutinized after an...

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Corporate Authors: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee for a Study of Performance-based Safety Regulation, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2018]
Series:Special report (National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board) ; 324.
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Online Access:https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24907/designing-safety-regulations-for-high-hazard-industries
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Summary:Designing Safety Regulations for High Hazard Industries, examines key factors relevant to government safety regulators when choosing among regulatory design types, particularly for preventing low-frequency, high consequence events. In such contexts, safety regulations are often scrutinized after an incident, but their effectiveness can be inherently difficult to assess when their main purpose is to reduce catastrophic failures that are rare to begin with. Nevertheless, regulators of high hazard industries must have reasoned basis for making their regulatory design choices.
Physical Description:xiv, 150 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309466066
0309466067