ABSTRACT
Suppose you are a government official, responsible for industrial safety, in a Third World country. You are confronted with a structural problem. The regional economy is growing steadily but development is taking place in an uncontrolled fashion: industrial growth is concentrated in relatively few cities; there is a virtual absence of rural development; and the physical and social infrastructure is only in its formative stages. You are daily confronted with the problem of a society that encourages the rapid development of industry but which has only limited technical, administrative and financial resources for regulating industrial activities.
