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Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.382
EAN: 9780750674119
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0750674113
Label: Butterworth-Heinemann
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 01, 2002
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Studio: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Editorial Review:
Developing an Effective Safety Culture implements a simple philosophy, namely that working safely is a cultural issue. An effective safety culture will eventually lead to the desired goal of zero incidents in the work place, and this book will provide an understanding of what is needed to reach this goal. The authors present reference material for all phases of building a safety management system and ultimately developing a safety program that fits the culture.This volume offers the most comprehensive approach to developing an effective safety culture. Information is easily accessible as the authors move first through, understanding the cost of incidents, then to perspectives and descriptions of management systems, principal management leadership traits, establishing and evaluating goals and objectives, providing visible leadership, and assigning required responsibilities. In addition, you are given the means to systematically identifying hazards and develop your own hazard inventory and control system. Further information on OSHA requirements for training, behavior-based safety processes, and the development of a job hazard analysis for each task is available as well. Valuable case studies, from the authors' own experience in the industry, are used throughout to demonstrate the concepts presented. * Provides the tools to rebuild or enhance a desired safety culture
* Allows you to identify a program that will fit your specific application
* Examines different philosophies in relation to safety culture development
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent reference book!
I work in claims & risk management for an insurance broker. I purchased this book for myself four years ago. It quickly became my Bible for helping accounts develop sustainable safety cultures. I have purchased at least three additional copies for people responsible for safety programs at three of our accounts. In the opinion of all of us, the info in this book is useful, immediate, practical.
The book is filled with summaries, sample forms, detailed chapters. Being somewhat modular, ... Read More
Rating: - Safety Management Basics
Overall the text is quite good in explaining safety management concepts which are highly effective.
I believe it would make a good text for a safety management course.
The book gets into some topics that aren't needed to explain the concepts presented making the text larger than necessary. There is some redundancy of information in the way the text is structured / written.
I purchased additional copies for clients.
Definitely a worthwhile read ... Read More
Rating:  - Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach
This book is for the novice. Approach presented to developing an effective safety culture is heavily based on OSHA. Anything based on government requirements is minimalist at best. I was dissapointed in the book and regret purchasing it.
Rating: - Thumb Print Plan for Safety
What the authors of this book provided, whether they realized it or not, was a "blue-print plan" for a new safety advisor, director, manager, or other safety professional, to get a safety program up and running from scratch for any organization. Especially chapter 10. If I would have had chapter 10 to follow as a guide when I was a new Safety Advisor, I would have had the instructions I so desperately needed at the time to help build the safest work environment possible. I had safety in the heart, but not ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding resource
Author Roughton's book is remarkably clear and concise, affording a comprehensive perspective on the context and content of an effective safety culture.
Those interested in creating such a culture will understand that the emphasis on safety must become an integral part of the organization from top management to the operating worker. This book describes the path to that end, as opposed to simply describing a tool to be used and set aside.
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