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The Management of Safety
The Behavioural Approach to Changing Organizations
- Valerie Sutherland - Independent Consultant, Surrey
- Peter John Makin - University of Manchester, UK
- Charles Cox - Nashville, Tennessee
April 2000 | 160 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The challenge to improve safety at work remains a key concern of many organizations, as traditional approaches to safety in organizations have not had the anticipated impact of reducing accident rates at work. As the authors of this new book show, the existing methods of attempting to enhance safe performance have very limited efficacy.
The Management of Safety reviews the main theories underlying safety management and their application to developing safe behaviour, and provides an introduction to the new behaviour-based approach to safety management and quality improvement. Throughout the text, useful examples and illustrations are included to show the need for this new approach.
This book should be read by anyone with an interest in or responsibility for safety in the workplace, and by academics and students of human resource management and organizational behaviour.
The Need for Change
Personality Attitudes and Climate
Behaviour and its Consequences
The Behaviour-Based Approach in Practice
Applying the Behaviour-Based Approach to Safety
Managing the Change
Beyond Safety
