Resumen de "Accidents and emergencies: : Welfare and safety in Europe and north america, c.1750-2000": 9-11 september 2013, oxford, uk
Taylor talks about the three-day conference titled "Accidents and Emergencies: Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c.1750-2000" organized by Mike Esbester (University of Portsmouth) and Tom Crook (Oxford Brookes University) that was recently held at Oxford Brookes University. One focus of the conference was industrial health and safety through history, and the ways that practices of risk management have been marked by change and continuity over two-and-a-half centuries. This included such varied topics as shipbuilding, coal mining, munitions factories, and sewer gas, with much of the discussion suggesting that cultures of risk management long predate their current preoccupation with the subject. One of the benefits of such approaches was that with similar time frames though varied national contexts, a comparative transnational perspective was readily apparent, showing many similarities alongside some notable differences
