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Amalberti

Managing Risk Rather Than Striving for Absolute Safety

July 13, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

One of the great texts that smash the notion of zero risk/zero harm is by Amalberti, R., (2013) Navigating Safety, Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs Theory and Practice. Springer. New York. Amalberti is a professor of medicine, ergonomics and physiology and argues for ‘risk realism’ in the Health … [Read more...] about Managing Risk Rather Than Striving for Absolute Safety

Filed Under: Risk Management, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: absolutes, Amalberti, safety models

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