Safety Leadership: A Different, Doable and Directed Approach to Operational Improvements

This book introduces a new safety paradigm that aims to improve safety and overall organizational performance through a doable, different, and directed approach using multiple small steps. It covers important topics such as complexity, effective workplace innovations, micro-experiments, maintaining alignment between rules and reality, maximizing learning, and restoring relations, and includes practical examples and supporting material. It is aimed at those who are responsible for the overall performance of organizations, divisions, or departments in diverse industries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 23 February 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book is specifically designed for individuals who hold key roles in the overall performance of organizations, divisions, or departments across diverse industries, including healthcare, aviation, construction, oil and gas, nuclear, railways, and defense. Its primary objective is to introduce a novel safety paradigm that is accessible and practical, with the ultimate goal of enhancing safety and improving organizational performance through a feasible, distinct, and directed approach that involves taking multiple small steps.

By integrating the inherent variability of human performance and our capacity to compensate for unpredictability elsewhere, this book empowers readers to understand how to incorporate these factors into organizational systems, ensuring successful outcomes. It addresses crucial topics such as complexity, effective workplace innovations, micro-experiments, maintaining alignment between rules and reality, maximizing learning, and restoring relationships. The book includes practical examples and comprehensive supporting material, all referenced in the extensive notes section.

This book is particularly valuable for safety professionals, academics, researchers, and students (undergraduate and graduate) in the fields of health and safety, human factors, ergonomics, occupational health and safety. Its concise and clear writing style effectively conveys the latest scientific insights on safety, making it an essential resource for anyone seeking to advance their knowledge and expertise in this critical area.

Weight: 240g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367652753