Memories from the 200 years of industrial safety

Abstract

Industrial safety and prevention are often thought as an achievement of modern times, generated by recent technical and social challenges. This field is usually conceived as having been invented without any prequels, since it had not meant any problem previously. Regulations of dangerous goods have a longer history than supposed. It was brought into existence by dynamic progress of chemistry, industry and transportation in the 18th and 19th centuries and in accordance, increasing of dangerous goods in our environment. First written regulation of dangerous goods’ transportation got initiated in 1796. In Hungary, similar legislations were firstly introduced in 1870. Two years later, the “Industry Act” assigned control and license tasks to the industrial authority. This article aims to produce a review of memories of former regulations in the fields of dangerous goods’ transport, authorization and sanctioning. Furthermore, its point is the presentation of similarities and relations of former and recent regulations.