Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by A. Ian Glendon, Sharon G. Clarke, Eugene F. McKenna

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 528
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reflecting a decade’s worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of the material from the earlier edition. Examining a wide range of approaches to risk, the authors define safety culture and review theoretical models that elucidate mechanisms linking safety culture with safety performance. Filled with practical examples and case studies and drawing on a range of disciplines, the book explores individual differences and the many ways in which human beings are alike within a risk and safety context. It delineates a risk management approach that includes a range of techniques such as risk assessment, safety audit, and safety interventions. The authors address concepts central to workplace safety such as attitudes and their link with behavior. They discuss managing behavior in work environments including key functions and benefits of groups, factors influencing team effectiveness, and barriers to effectiveness such as groupthink.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
About the Authors......Page 10
Glossary......Page 12
Contents......Page 18
1. Introduction......Page 28
2. Risk models and risk management......Page 42
3. From sensation and perception through motivation and behavior......Page 94
4. Human error and human factors......Page 136
5. Personality and risk liability......Page 182
6. Attitudes, values, and risk behaviors......Page 212
7. The role of stress in safety and risk......Page 254
8. Managing teams for safe performance......Page 296
9. Leading and supervising for safe performance......Page 334
10. Managing human risks......Page 358
11. Safety culture......Page 390
12. Risk management— conclusions......Page 434
References......Page 446
Index......Page 514
Back cover......Page 528