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Injury, Death and the Deregulation Fetish

The politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries

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Risk Management and Society

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ((NTHR,volume 16))

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Abstract

In May 1994 the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) publicly reported upon its year long review into deregulation and UK health and safety legislation. The response of TUC secretary John Monks to the report was clearly one of relief. It should, he said, “mark the death of the deregulation fetish in health and safety” (Guardian, 25/5/94).

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Tombs, S. (2000). Injury, Death and the Deregulation Fetish. In: Coles, E., Smith, D., Tombs, S. (eds) Risk Management and Society. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2913-0_9

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