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Measuring Safety Management Performance explains the difference between lagging and leading measures of safety management performance and describes how to use proactive and reactive safety performance indicators. This highly practical book is an ideal read for professionals and students in the fields of occupational health and safety.

This book covers the designing, implementation, and auditing of structured occupational health and safety management systems (SMS), sometimes referred to as safety programs. This book covers the elements and processes that constitute a SMS, the implementation process, and the auditing of the conformance to standards.

The Cause, Effect and Control of Accidental Loss takes the reader through fifteen phases of a typical workplace accident and shows how accidents can be prevented by the introduction of safety management controls in the form of a structured health and safety management system (SMS).

This book provides an effective reference source for the readers involved in investigation workplace accidents and high potential near miss incidents in a single volume. It will an ideal text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health and safety.

This book covers the designing, implementation, and auditing of structured occupational health and safety management systems (SMS), sometimes referred to as safety programs. This book covers the elements and processes that constitute a SMS, the implementation process, and the auditing of the conformance to standards.

Fueled by more than 40 years in the safety industry and having conducted thousands of interviews with managers and workers worldwide, Ron C. McKinnon confronts the safety industry's most prevalent and dangerous myths head-on in Changing Safety's Paradigms. This book lists the most prominent safety paradigms, or myths seen all over the world and gives advice on how they can be changed for the better. Around the world, the work injury rate is in...

Identification and investigation of "near-miss" incidents can be the difference between avoiding and suffering a drastic, loss-producing accident. This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop a "near-miss" incident program in the workplace to isolate and eliminate root causes, heal systemic weaknesses, and implement safety management systems before an accident occurs. Focusing on the successes of safety systems at two large c...

Fueled by more than 30 years in the safety industry and by thousands of interviews with managers and workers worldwide, McKinnon confronts the safety industry's most prevalent and most dangerous myths head-on. He identifies 20 common safety paradigms, examines how these misconceptions negatively impact the way employers manage safety and health in their facilities, and provides guidelines for changes that will reduce accidents in the workplace.

With the draft version of ISO 45001 already released (which the author had some input on) and the final version expected by the end of 2016, this is an ideal opportunity for a book that is aimed at meeting the requirements of the new standards and at being a practical reference when an organization embarks on implementing a safety management system. The book provides practical examples of what needs to be done to achieve the requirements of th...

The only way to ensure that accidents and their consequences are tackled at the source is to identify and eliminate the workplace risks before, rather than after the event. The ongoing identification of workplace and worker risk must become a value to an organization and must occur automatically, as part of the culture of the organization if accidental losses are to be eliminated. This book shows that an organization's safety culture is the dr...