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Describes some changes made to improve the environment which have had unforeseen and adverse effects on safety and the reasons why we need more case histories. Also discusses the reasons why there are no permanent solutions to safety problems and the reasons why senior managers should become more involved in safety problems.

Technologists and the public look at risks in different ways: technologists try to find a way of estimating the size of each risk and then try to deal with the bigger ones first; their decisions may not be right but the reasons for them are usually made clear. In contrast, the reasons for the public’s decisions are usually implicit, that is, they have to be deduced from their actions, but nevertheless they show a pattern. Tries to give each side a better understanding of the other’s point of view.

Have disasters become more frequent and more severe? We often assume that they have but a review of the evidence does not support this view, so far as the oil and chemical industries are concerned. In the 1970s the size of the chemical industry doubled but the number and frequency of accidents killing five or more people remained constant. However, in the 1980s, although the frequency remained the same there were more major incidents and more people died. Two forgotten, nineteenth century disasters, which resulted, like Hillsborough (1989), from the failure of crowd control, are described.

DO YOU need risk management? Most people, faced with that question, prefer to think about something more important such as where they are going to spend their next holiday. Unfortunately, although you may go away, the risks will not.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.