[SystemSafety] Historical Questions

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2017-03-09 06:16 , Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
>  
> On 2017-03-09 05:59 , DREW Rae wrote:
>> Formal investigation for the purpose of safety, and formal regulation of safety through
>> Inspectorates is a 19th century invention. 
> 
> Maybe, but what's your trigger? What constitutes "formal"? What constitutes "regulation"? You seem
> to suggest: state involvement. So, at some point a state decides "we are going to adjudicate
> accident-events formally". 

According to this article, written by a historian at Colorado State Uni, it was 1838 in the US:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-01-31/the-horrific-accident-that-created-the-regulatory-state


PBL

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