Corruption and the management of public safety : the governance of technological systems / Simon Ahsley Bennett.

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London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

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Simon Ashley Bennett teaches risk management at the University of Leicester, England. He is interested in the organisational, social, economic and political origins of risk. For example, loss of organisational memory, mindlessness, groupthink, corruption, political instability, terrorism and war. He is a member of the Air Safety Group of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. His books include Systems-thinking for Safety (2019) and Atomic Blackmail? The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities during the Russia-Ukraine War (2023).

Graft is a common and persistent social pathogen that afflicts the developed and developing world in equal measure. This book describes, through the medium of international case studies, how graft undermines public safety and how, following a near-miss, incident or accident, investigators can use actor-network theory (ANT) to ascertain to what degree and through what mechanisms graft contributed to the event. The book introduces the reader to graft through a variety of case studies and explains how graft works against the public interest. The relatable case studies include the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster, 2007 Adam Air crash, 2015-ongoing Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal and 2020 Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion (Lebanon). It demonstrates the threat graft poses to public safety, economic success and corporate and national reputation. By the end of the book the reader will understand the nature and extent of the problem of graft, how graft undermines safety, confidence and reputation, and how ANT can be used to identify and quantify graft in respect of the governance of technological systems and to ascertain to what degree and through what mechanisms graft contributed to a near-miss, incident or accident. Primarily aimed at an academic audience, this book will offer essential insights to students, researchers and faculty within the fields of risk, crisis and disaster management, as well as corporate governance and safety. The accessible nature of the book will also appeal to safety practitioners, risk managers and accident investigators.

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

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October 04, 2024

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List of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: The impact on public safety of corruption2 Data, definition of terms, method, theory and presentation3 Case studies3.1 Nuclear soldiers3.2 The Marine Electric loss3.3 The Hillsborough football stadium disaster3.4 The Adam Air disaster3.5 The Volkswagen emissions scandal3.6 The Grenfell Tower disaster3.7 The Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion4 Conclusions5 Policy recommendationsGlossaryBibliography