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Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk
Tracey Brown
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Description for Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door? Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station? And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep? These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global health, safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown ... Read more
Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door? Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station? And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep? These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global health, safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group GB
Language
English
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751564952
SKU
V9780751564952
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About Tracey Brown
Michael Hanlon is a London-based science journalist and author who writes regularly for national newspapers as well as The Spectator and New Scientist. Michael is the author of five popular science books, including: The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ten Questions Science Can't Answer Yet and Eternity: Our Next Billion Years. Michael has participated in a gorilla ... Read more
Reviews for Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk
[An] excellent, sceptical take on safety culture
BBC Focus
In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences . . . In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses
Michael Bywater
... Read more
BBC Focus
In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences . . . In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses
Michael Bywater
... Read more