The Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss

✍ Scribed by Ron C. McKinnon

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Workplace Safety, Risk Management, and Industrial Hygiene
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Cause, Effect and Control of Accidental Loss takes the reader through fifteen phases of a typical workplace accident and shows how accidents can be prevented by the introduction of safety management controls in the form of a structured health and safety management system (SMS). It proposes that once the event has been triggered, there is no certainty as to the outcome, so workplaces should rely on proactive safety actions rather than reactive ones. Now fully updated, this new edition expands on the important concepts from the first editions, including hazard identification, risk assessment, flawed safety management systems, the potential for loss, and management control.

This title:

• Challenges the paradigm that the measure of consequence (losses) is a good indicator of safety effort.

• Introduces three luck factors that determine the course of the accident sequence.

• Explains what causes accidents, their consequences, and how to prevent them.

• Showcases accident immediate causes including high-risk (unsafe) acts and high-risk (unsafe) conditions.

The text is an essential read for professionals, graduate students, and academics in the field of occupational health, safety, and industrial hygiene.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Data Collection
Part One Accidental Loss – The Cause
Chapter 1 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
Chapter 2 Weak or Flawed Safety Management System (SMS)
Chapter 3 Root Causes of Accidental Loss
Chapter 4 Accident Immediate Causes – High-Risk Acts and Conditions
Chapter 5 Luck Factor 1
Chapter 6 Near-Miss Incidents – Under Slightly Different Circumstances
Chapter 7 Potential for Loss
Chapter 8 Exposure, Impact, or Exchange of Energy
Part Two Accidental Loss – The Effect
Chapter 9 Luck Factor 2
Chapter 10 Injury, Illness, and Disease
Chapter 11 Property and Equipment Damage
Chapter 12 Business Interruption
Chapter 13 Luck Factor 3
Chapter 14 Severity of an Injury
Chapter 15 Costs of Accidental Loss
Part Three Accidental Loss – The Control
Chapter 16 Safety Management Functions
Chapter 17 Safety Management Control
Chapter 18 Health and Safety Management Systems (SMS)
References
Index