Strategies in health and safety at work

There is a growing field for study concerned with arrangements for health and safety at work. Safety strategies represent the larger arrangements. These can now be placed on a simple framework: pre-accident strategies comprising `safe place¿¿ and `safe person¿¿ strategies; post-accident strategies comprising contingency strategies, ameliorative strategies, and feed-back strategies; and collateral strategies. In the past, the framework has been obscured by the intrusion of extrinsic questions such as the inconsistency of the public´s view of risk, political views of industrial society and government intervention, and problems in the interpretation of responsibility. These issues are identified clearly as not belonging to discussions about safety strategies. When once these issues are separated from questions about safety strategies, the framework can be perceived.