INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT AS A SOURCE OF JEOPARDISING THE SAFETY OF PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT WITH A SPECIAL REVIEW OF THE CASE STUDY 'ACCIDENT IN THE MIDDLE SECTION OF THE DANUBE RIVER'

摘要

After almost two centuries of industrial development, which took place in the sign of general scientific and technological progress, reconsiderations of essential effects and sense of such progress are becoming increasingly frequent. The risks as to the safety and health of people are increasingly observable. Jeopardising and degradation of environment due to human negligence and increasingly present industrial accidents, have reached a critical level. The mankind has actually, by improving high technologies, come into possession of a perfect weapon to commit suicide. The contemporary society is therefore increasingly being shaped and described as a society of risk. In this paper the authors analysed the synergism in theoretical sense and practical application of legislation and current condition in the field of industrial accidents on the basis of exact parameters, and particularly on the basis of the case study 'Accident on the middle section of the Danube river', and pointed at the possibility of protection of people and assets, offered by legal solutions in Serbia, with a review of current solution on the global level.