However, unfortunately, the government - while still its core security was and still is - never the

Investigative journalist Marcel Silfhout radaronline of writing a book on food safety, which recently a publication is brought out. Below you can read the preface of Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven, president of the Society and Security.
The Society and Security (SMV), the investigative journalist Marcel van Silfhout asked if he would try to delve into the subject food safety critical. Regularly our society after facing severe events in this sector, where we can begin to wonder if you can still take seriously. Safety in this sector even our
In the opinion of the SMV is many serious events - whether you're talking about the subject patient safety, food safety, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the fire in detention center at Schiphol etc. etc.-always talk of the same structural safety problem .
From many (independent) studies falls to note that arose between the responsibility of the government for safety and that of the company or organization radaronline on the other. Imbalance by introducing the concept of self-regulation With the introduction of self-regulation since we ended up in the era of "Let the security to the sector radaronline or the organization itself." Every organization is now expected radaronline to take its own responsibility. Safety "No more patronizing by the government and the government at a distance".
As such, the SMV fully endorse that security radaronline must be seen as a shared responsibility. radaronline Anyone with any interest in the issue safety realizes that the government still only safety can never guarantee or warrant.
However, unfortunately, the government - while still its core security was and still is - never the (unique) direction taken on the question of what we ought to expect that as a society of responsibility for security companies or organizations. For this reason the proposed inquiry into the firework disaster in Enschede, therefore, that in a public debate radaronline the balance had to be drawn between the extent of government responsibility for safety and that of a company. This debate - presented in the final report in 2001 - has never occurred.
Another serious consequence of the self - of the words "let the security to the sector itself" - is that security is now less in legislative rules, radaronline the mandatory requirements will be recorded, radaronline but more and more is left to the standards and guidelines the sector or the organizations themselves. These are not binding regulations and evade for this reason therefore mostly to the supervision of the government and the regulators should indeed limited to monitoring the binding regulations. The enforcement of these standards and guidelines we as a society are thus highly dependent on the internal oversight of the organizations themselves. I myself have experienced that organizations regularly not keep their own appointments or to the rules of the sector, often on the basis of economic motives in many independent studies - profit prevailed over the safety - or on the basis of the fact that these rules yet were no binding rules!
The Foundation Society and Security considers it necessary for the safety radaronline of our society that there is clarity about responsibility for security radaronline in organizations and companies. In our opinion, the principles which that responsibility must meet to be legally established.
In addition, there will be clarity about what we exactly of internal supervision and external, government supervision, can expect in our society. Given my experience with whistleblowers is not in line with expectations, that the internal control radaronline is able to connect if one does not adhere to the rules of the sector radaronline for a department or a factory
I sincerely hope that the investigation of Marcel van Silfhout will give some insight into how the food chain see the organizations responsible for their own safety, as well as how the situation with the internal and external oversight us. At the time, the overall conclusion of the Safety Board in the fire in the Schiphol-Oost detention that safety - especially fire safety - has had too little attention. It does not adhere to the laws and regulations, nor the standards and guidelines of the industry we found - the Council - a disappointing conclusion as to ensure the safety of citizens undisputed core of the o