Hazard Management and Emergency Planning : Perspectives in Britain (Hardcover)

Preface * Section I: Introduction ? The Mismanagement of Hazards * Section II: Emergency Planning and Management in Britain ? The Role of the Home Office * Peacetime Emergency Planning in Britain ? A Country Emergency Planning Officers' Society View * Britain at Risk: Accountability and Quality Control in Disaster Management * Managing Disaster: the Indirect Approach * Harnessing the Trained Volunteer * Section II: The Current Malaise * Section III: Explanatory Perspectives ? Legal Responsibilities for Industrial Emergency Planning in the UK * Corporate Responsibility in an Age of Deregulation * The New Public Management: a Recipe for Disaster? * Disaster at Hillsborough Stadium: a Comparative Analysis * Section Summary III: Issues in Explaining Responses * Section IV: Hazard and Emergency Management Concepts for the Future ? Foundations and Principles of Emergency Planning and Management * Enabling Effective Hazard Management by the Public * 'Them and Us': Emergency Planning and Response in a Social Perspective * Scenario Construction for Risk Communication in Emergency Planning: Six 'Golden Rules' * The National Poisons Unit: the Development of Electronic Databases and their Proposed Use for Chemical Disaster Management * Emergency Management in Australia: Concepts and Characteristics * Hazard Management and Safety Culture * Section Summary IV: Promising Conclusions * Section V: Conclusions ? Improving Hazard Management and Emergency Planning * Appendix: Selected Major Accidents and Disasters Affecting Britain * Index