Essentials of Safety: Maintaining the Balance

This book explores the underlying elements of safety and leadership in the workplace, promoting thinking and understanding of good safety and leadership practices. It is aimed at students, safety practitioners, and leaders in the industry.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 231 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book goes beyond the realm of safety and delves into the intricate dynamics of people and leadership in the workplace. It seeks to uncover the fundamental aspects of safety that lie beneath the complexity and intricacy of the modern workplace, emphasizing the importance of getting these aspects right. The book explores the core elements that influence individual behavior, leadership styles, organizational systems, and workplace cultures.

To accomplish this, the book delves into 12 underlying elements (Chapter 1), examines the practices and routines of effective leaders (Chapter 2), identifies barriers to implementation and offers remedies (Chapter 3), demonstrates how to utilize the Essentials of Safety for learning and improvement after incidents (Chapter 4), and assesses the effectiveness of these essential elements in the workplace (Chapter 5). Rather than providing a rigid set of instructions, the book aims to foster critical thinking and inspire individuals to explore what good looks like in the realm of safety and leadership.

This book is a valuable resource for students, safety practitioners, leaders at all levels, and anyone with an interest in understanding the potential for excellence in safety and leadership. It offers insights, practical strategies, and thought-provoking questions to help individuals and organizations achieve safer and more effective workplaces.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032020556