Abstract
The purpose is how to explore the problems as how do we determine how hazardous things are, how can any one gauge the public's willingness to accept risks, what sort of a decision tool is this notion of "safety", and the underlying concept of safety itself. It has the chapters (I) The Safety Problem; (II) Measuring risk; (III) Judging safety; (IV) Safety issues as public problems; (V) Making safe; and (VI) DDT: an archetypal modern problem.