Mindful Safety: A Multi-level approach to Improving Safety Culture and Performance

Mindful Safety combines neuroscience and psychology to build a stronger safety culture, focusing on attention, and the ability to focus, to boost performance and resilience, reduce human error, and the number of safety incidents. It can be applied to the healthcare, road, rail, aviation, and energy sectors, and emphasizes self-care, strengthening relationships, and learning from positives.

Format: Hardback
Length: 178 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Synthesising the latest thinking from neuroscience and psychology with the practice of safety management, Mindful Safety offers a transformative approach to building a much stronger safety culture from the ground up. Through a combination of case studies, applied research, and practical exercises, the book demonstrates how attention and the ability to focus can significantly boost performance and resilience, while reducing human error and the number of safety incidents.

Representing a new kind of safety thinking to meet contemporary challenges, the book covers four critical levels: the individual, the relational, the organisational, and the societal. The approach can be successfully applied to the healthcare, road, rail, aviation, and energy sectors for greater safety and performance.

The emphasis on self-care, strengthening relationships, and learning from positives signals a clear shift in safety management thinking. This is not just an insightful, analytical approach, but an action-based one ready for implementation. Few approaches in the field tackle the subjects of sleep, fatigue, distraction, smartphone addiction, workplace stress, and mental health with the same vigour, or provide the safety toolkit for fighting a pandemic.

If you want to create the right mindset to achieve exceptional results in these uncertain times, this book will show you how. It is aimed at professionals in the health and safety industry, as well as graduate students in human factors, ergonomics, industrial engineering, and production engineering.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 160 x 243 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367565022