From Safety to Safety Science

5 Risk, safety and organisation – management

1970‒1990

DOI: 10.4324/9781003001379-5

The 1970s were a time of turmoil and tension in much of the world.

In the 1970s, a new genre of dance music and a subculture emerged: disco. It can be seen as a reaction to both the dominance of rock music and the stigmatisation of dance music at the time. Disco was the last popular music movement driven by the baby boom generation. Disco influenced the development of electronic dance music in general and house music in particular.

The 1973 oil crisis began when Arabic countries proclaimed an oil embargo targeted at nations that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The crisis had many short- and long-term effects. Fuel shortages caused long lines at ...