9 Epilogue
More than 150 years of knowledge development within the safety domain has been reviewed in eight chapters. Periods with a strong dynamic development and periods with a certain standstill alternate. This chapter provides a summary and takes stock.
This book started with questions about knowledge development in the safety domain and about the influence of general management schools on developments in safety management. Before the Second World War, the United Kingdom and the United States were front-runners in safety, and the Netherlands is presented as a case study showing how these Anglo-Saxon ideas on safety were translated into the Dutch context. After the Second World War, safety theories, models ...
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