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The influence of managers

Howard Fidderman looks at research into how different levels of management can affect health and safety.

Recent disaster inquiries, including Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Clapham Junction, the Herald of Free Enterprise, Piper Alpha and King's Cross, have all found that managerial failures were at least as important as technical and human failures.