This book provides one of the first systematic accounts of how corporations manage risk to workers and consumers. Careful analysis and interviewing in different corporations elicit a portrait of the myriad hazards that currently confront industry, the corporate programs and resources that have emerged since 1970 to respond to this challenge, and fa

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Managing Hazards at PETROCHEM Corporation -- Managing Occupational Hazards at a PHARMACHEM Corporation Plant -- Managing Product Hazards at Volvo Car Corporation -- Managing Occupational and Catastrophic Hazards at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant -- Union Carbide Corporation and the Bhopal Disaster -- Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research