This paper records the lived reality of night-freight operations at a UK-registered airline. Observations were made over an 18-month period. The paper answers calls for more research into the working and living conditions of night-freight pilots. Pilots perceived numerous issues. These included...

In their paper 'Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations: The Implications of the Überlingen and Linate Disasters' Busby and Bennett attribute the 'defensive capacity' of an airspace system to the behaviour of those who constitute its production-protection space (first-line producers...

List of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: The impact on public safety of corruption2 Data, definition of terms, method, theory and presentation3 Case studies3.1 Nuclear soldiers3.2 The Marine Electric loss3.3 The Hillsborough football stadium disaster3.4 The Adam Air...

1. Empowering emergency responders / Roger Miles -- 2. Terrorism and the risk society / David Waddington and Kerry McSeveny -- 3. The emergent nature of risk as a product of 'heterogeneous engineering' : a relational analysis of oil and gas industry safety culture / Anthony J. Masys -- 4. The...