Risks, Circumstances and Regulation – Historical development, diversity of structures and practices in Occupational Safety and Health inspections

The question of how inspectorates on occupational safety and health were born and developed recalls the question of how risks were conceived and how they lead to the adoption of regulations, creation of institutions, development of their scope of work, powers and methods. What seems to have led to create regulations and inspection institutions was, interestingly, not just the importance of a risk in terms of lives lost or other harm, but that a...