In the Interests of Safety: The absurd rules that blight our lives and how we can change them - Hardcover

Brown, Tracey; Hanlon, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0751553492 ISBN 13: 9780751553499

Verlag: Sphere, 2014

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Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door?
Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a petrol station?
And is there really a good reason why you should be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep?

These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global safety rules and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon dig a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the instructions we obey without questioning their creators' motives. Their conclusions range from the startling to the staggering, and in presenting them the authors seek to empower readers to question the people and organisations who come up with them in the first place.

Contraportada:

In the interests of safety we are guided out of danger we never knew we were in.

In the interests of safety we are protected from threats we never knew existed.

But in whose interests might that be, exactly?

In the past 20 years, safety and security measures have infiltrated every part of our lives, and these measures are spreading. They are making our lives more complicated, more expensive and more frustrating with very few of them actually making us any safer.

It's time to fight back.

*by picking up this book you, the reader, assume full liability for your own safety and absolve the publishers, authors, their agents, families, friends and acquaintances of any responsibility whatsoever for any accident arising as a result of your reading or handling of it'

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• Verlag: Sphere
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0751553492
• ISBN 13: 9780751553499
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288