- Author
- Roughton, J. E. | Mercurio, J. J.
- Title
- Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach.
- Book or Conf
- Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach, Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn, MA, 510 p., 2002
- Keywords
- safety | effectiveness | industrial sfety | management systems | hazards control | investigations | medical services | training | health hazards | hazard analysis | human behavior | evaluation
- Identifiers
- characteristics of an effective safety culture; management aspects of an effective safety culture; safety and health programs that support the safety culture; measuring the safety culture
- Abstract
- Many managers and safety professionals consider a written policy as a solution to safety issues. Merely developing procedures does not set the stage for a safety culture. This takes many years of hard work to accomplish. In the development stage, you will see peaks and valleys (ups and downs) in your injuries. This is natural. You must be patient. It is important that you do not react hastily to each situation. If you feel that your process is working then you must learn to manage the process. To help you understand the importance of developing a safety management system, we have divided this book into four parts to help you understand the process. [Foreword: We believe that the style of writing in this book and the information presented will encourage you to read it from cover to cover. In attempting to reach large numbers of diverse readers, many writers have a tendency to consider only part of their audience, despite the vital importance of the topic. Safety and health are no exception. In this case, the readers and the authors engage in risk taking; we hope that it will offer the most comprehensive approach to developing an effective safety culture, and you hope to get something out of it to help build your own successful safety culture. We have tried to provide a book that can be a reference in all phases of building your safety management system (process) and ultimately developing a safety program that supports your safety culture. A significant number of incidents are a consequence of our daily actions, habits, and lifestyles. For example, we add to the probability of having an incident every time we get in our car to go to work or run an errand, board an airplane to go on vacation or on a business trip, cross the street, lift a heavy object, etc. The list is endless. What you will learn from this book is that people (employees) alter their behavior in response to safety measures, but everyday risk will not change, unless the manage ment system is capable of motivating and allowing employees to alter the amount of risk they are willing to incur. As an alternative to the enforcement, educational, and engineering approaches of the past, a systematic, motivational approach to incident prevention is presented in this book. This is an approach that offers employees a reason to reduce incidents and to adopt safer ways of life.]