Author: Calvert Jay JudkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Professional associations
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
National Associations of the United States
Author: Calvert Jay JudkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Professional associations
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwainPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Standard
Author: The Eastern Underwriter
Author: Economic World
Author: Arthur Richmond MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Market World and Chronicle
Author: Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Domestic Commerce Series ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. (Dept. of commerce).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description