Safety, Culture and Risk

Safety, Culture and Risk

Detailed background and guidance on the development of Health and Safety practice.

  • Safety, Culture and Risk
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Safety management in the workplace is an issue of critical importance to business managers as well as those responsible for Health and Safety in any organisation.

However, although the concepts of safety, culture and risk have become increasing matters of concern and are often discussed, they are concepts that are not often clearly understood.

This new book from Professor Andrew Hopkins focuses on these concepts, and deals with the complex issues in a clear, informative style that will both inform organisations and companies, and assist them to be better able to create safe environments for their employees and clients, and to mitigate risk.

Features

Professor Hopkins is a non-technical writer who is able to communicate clearly with non-specialists about quite complex ideas. The book will assist organisations to be able to create safe environments for their employees and clients, and to mitigate risk.

Contents

The first three parts of the book advocate the development of risk-awareness:

  • Part 1 is a general discussion of organisational culture.
  • Part 2 is an empirical investigation of how organisational culture affects safety, using the Glenbrook train crash as a case study.
  • Part 3 is a second case study of how organisational culture interfered with safety.
  • Part 4 is an extended discussion of the concept of risk, dealing with issues such as the assumption that risk can be objectively measured; the current view that risk is a product of likelihood and severity; the conflict between ‘acceptable risk’ and ‘as low as reasonably practical’; the tendency of risk management to become risk spreading rather than risk reduction; and the confusion between risk and hazard.

Author:

  • Professor Andrew Hopkins is a sociologist at the Australian National University and has published widely in the area of occupational health and safety. He is author of CCH's Safety, Culture and Risk and Lessons from Longford: The Esso Gas Plant Explosion.

ISBN:

  • 978-1-92102-225-8


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