From clapham junction to macondo, deepwater horizon: Risk and safety management in high-tech-high-hazard sectors

What is the influence of general management trends and safety research on managing safety? A literature study which is limited to original English and Dutch books, documents, and articles in relevant scientific journals, for the period 1988–2010. Safety science does not yet have a unifying theory, which betrays its young age as a scientific discipline. In the period concerned, well-known theories, models and metaphors are established or...