Risks in modern society /

This multiauthored work, volume 13 of the "Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality" series, addresses risk and risk management in a more general fashion than its more focused predecessors. Coming from the International Social Security Association (ISSA), an international body with particular emphasis on occupational risks, the work's authorship and emphasis is mostly European, but with application worldwide. Contributors discuss occupational (some environmental) risks and more mechanical, than chemical or toxicological, risks. Editor Bischoff (from the Section for Machine and System Safety of the ISSA) also covers interactions with governmental and regulatory bodies. The book is intended for academic course work (in this reviewer's opinion, higher level and specialist courses) and as a resource for practitioners or researchers in fields such as safety and risk assessment and management, emergency planning, reliability and vulnerability assessment and management, and quality assurance. Unfortunately, there is no index, but topics should be readily found in the detailed, well-organized table of contents. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners. R. E. Buntrock formerly, University of Maine