ABSTRACT
Two world-views of hazard, risk and safety with reference to the engineering industry are discussed in this section: the one technical and the other human and organizational. It will be argued that there is a need to unify these two views through the adoption of five key points, together with the definition of the new discipline of hazard engineering based on Turner’s model of accident incubation (Turner 1978). The two basic activities of hazard engineering are hazard auditing and hazard management. The simple message that emerges is that safety depends upon good management.
