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Underlying the institutionalization of hazard management is a vital change in public attitudes. In the late 1960s three powerful movements those concerned with the environment, consumerism, and, more recently, personal health began to overlap and coalesce.
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, the Bhopal disaster, Legionnaires' disease, natural carcinogens, the nuclear winter scenario, suicide truck bombs, toxic shock syndrome, and poisoned Tylenol. Hazardous surprises seem to occur at a frequency of about twice a year worldwide.
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