Hazardous industries and risky technologies : a new role for insurance?.
Material type: TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1991Description: 18 pSubject: The insurance group has the potential to play an increasingly important role as the `honest broker', straddling hazardous industries and government policy groups on one side, and the at-risk population groups on the other. By deciding, for instance, which hazardous activities will be insurable; what types of risk reduction practices will be sanctioned; and which hazard assessment and analysis procedures will need to be conducted in order to purchase insurance, the insurance group has the potential to markedly influence Australia's hazardscapeItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 368.122 HAZ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005719557 |
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The insurance group has the potential to play an increasingly important role as the `honest broker', straddling hazardous industries and government policy groups on one side, and the at-risk population groups on the other. By deciding, for instance, which hazardous activities will be insurable; what types of risk reduction practices will be sanctioned; and which hazard assessment and analysis procedures will need to be conducted in order to purchase insurance, the insurance group has the potential to markedly influence Australia's hazardscape
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