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Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door?
Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station?
And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep?

These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global health, safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon dig a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the instructions we obey without questioning their creators' motives. Their conclusions range from the startling to the staggering, and in presenting them the authors seek to empower readers to question the people and organisations who come up with them in the first place.

Previously published as In the Interests of Safety.

Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk

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    Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
    Publication Date: 31/03/2016
    ISBN13: 9780751564952, 978-0751564952
    ISBN10: 0751564958

    Number of Pages: 336

    Non Fiction , Popular Science

    Description

    Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door?
    Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station?
    And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep?

    These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global health, safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon dig a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind many of the instructions we obey without questioning their creators' motives. Their conclusions range from the startling to the staggering, and in presenting them the authors seek to empower readers to question the people and organisations who come up with them in the first place.

    Previously published as In the Interests of Safety.

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