ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 examines the actual risk prevention measures, the legal documents, constructed by ‘risk entrepreneurs’ according to the ‘logics of consequences and appropriateness’ outlined in Chapter 2. In discussing the risk prevention measures, this chapter has three aims. The first is to show that these risk prevention measures possess constitutive (they construct risk configurations), regulative (they dictate the rules for conduct) and prescriptive (they offer justifications) properties. Quite simply, were the risks not first constructed, then the preventative measures which shape conduct would be unsustainable (inappropriate).
