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New report co-authored by David Ball

Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation guide

This updated report about risk management in children's play provision has been co-authored by the Middlesex Professor David Ball.

Internet tutorials

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The following tutorials are written, reviewed and regularly updated by a national team of UK university lecturers and librarians with the aim of supporting students, lecturers and researchers in UK higher education.

Risk web resources

Center for Risk Perception and Communication
This research centre is based in the USA.
Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)
The Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) is an interdisciplinary research centre whose core intellectual work focuses on the organisational and institutional settings for risk management and regulatory practices.
Crime and Social Justice research group
This is the wiki of the Crime and Social Justice Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Group is concerned with the links between processes and practices of crime and justice.
Environmental Science Division (EVS) of Argonne National Laboratory
Based in the USA, the Environmental Science Division (EVS) conducts basic and applied research and assessment that seek to understand how natural and human-managed environmental systems function and how system components respond to various perturbations.
Harvard Centre for Risk Analysis (HCRA)
The HCRA is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, research staff, students, and visiting scholars who work together to improve decisions about environmental health and other risks.
Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL)
HSL supports the HSE and also works with a wide range of other public and private-sector organisations, often conducting detailed, bespoke research and development work on their behalf.
Institute for Environment, Sustainability and Regeneration (IESR)
The IESR at Staffordshire University conducts research and provides consultant advice across a range of issues relating to sustainable environments and regeneration.
International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM)
IIRSM is a professional membership body that provides recognition, information, support and enhancement for health and safety professionals and specialist members related to the health and safety field.
RiskLab Switzerland
RiskLab Switzerland focuses on precompetitive, applied research in the general area of quantitative risk management for finance and insurance.
Social Contexts and Responses to Risks (SCARR)
This research network brings together sociologists, psychologists, economists, experts on social policy, the media, socio-legal studies and law and other social scientists from 14 universities.
Thematic Group on Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
The central objective of the thematic group is to estabish a sustainable discourse on risk and uncertainty in order to support theoretical developments as well as transnational empirical research.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
UNISDR's mandate is to serve as the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among disaster reduction activities.
RiskWorld: covering risk news and views

Public Health, Risk, Safety & Environment: Web resources - Risk

New report co-authored by David Ball

Internet tutorials

Risk web resources