Safe Enough?: Managing Risk and Regulation
- ISBN-10
- 0889752087
- ISBN-13
- 9780889752085
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- The Fraser Institute
- Authors
- Fraser Institute, B.C.)
Description
Case studies in risk management As we have become more affluent our demand for safety has increased. We no longer tolerate risks that were accepted as unavoidable as recently as 50 years ago. Of course, this decreased tolerance for risk ...
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