In the Interests of Safety: The absurd rules that blight our lives and how we can change them
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0751553492 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Matteo said A great read and an inspiration to fight the stupidity. This is a great book. It confirmed many deep suspicions I had about the culture around 'safety and security' and has armed me with some ideas and attitude to deal with the worst of its excesses. It is readable and amusing and finds many great examples of lazy thinking or misguided actions with good intentions and unintended consequences.It would pote. "Safety and security and where best interests may precariously lie" according to Paul Dennehy. A thought provoking insight into the rules and regulations around Health,Safety and security and where best interests may precariously lie. I Loved it.. Caroline Fletcher-Wood said Down with arrant stupidity.. Should be read by everyone who is being driven insane by the arrant stupidity around them. I add to this myself. When asked for personal details, I say no. You should see the surprised look on people's faces - never been told no before. If I want whomsoever to be able to contact me, I give name (or only part of name) and landline number. No mobs, DOB
But in this engrossing dissection of global health, safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon dig a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the instructions we obey without questioning their creators' motives. Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an ax on the back of the cockpit door? Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a petrol station? And is there really a good reason why you should 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. Their conclusions range from the startling to the staggering, and in presenting them the authors seek to empower readers to question the people and organizations who come up with them in the first place.
Michael Hanlon is a London-based science journalist and author who writes regularly for national newspapers as well as The Spectator and New Scientist
In the Interests of Safety has debunked some of the myths that blight our livesThe SunAn excellent, sceptical take on safety cultureBBC FocusIn the Interests of Safety tells you how to stand up to a jobsworth with knowledge, courtesy and common senseThe TimesIn 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 foolishnessesLiterary Review