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Safety Culture Assessing and Changing the Behavior of Organizations by John Bernard Taylor. Facility safety is an essential commercial risk and must be managed, says John Taylor in Safety Culture. Following an accident, the lack of a ‘good’ safety management system, compounded by a ‘poor’ safety culture, is a charge often laid on organizations. Accidents can take up to thirty percentage points off annual profits and, often, failure to manage safety has a much higher social cost that can involve fatalities or serious injury to members of the workforce and the public. This has been starkly demonstrated in the railway industry, the international atomic energy industry, and events in the oil exploration and refinery industry. In business terms, the ultimate cost can be receivership.
The Contents of Safety Culture Assessing and Changing the Behaviour of Organisations
- Organisational Safety-Culture Theory
- Safety-Culture Theory as a Predictive Model
- Safety-Culture and Event Predictions
- Essential Practices for Process Safety Culture
- Assessing Organisational Safety Culture
- An Independent Review
- Changing a Safety-Culture
- A Supervisors Guide to Safety Leadership
- The Psychological Implications of Change
- A Modular Assisted Approach
- Leadership for Safety
- Safety Behavioural Observation Techniques
- Change-Programme Monitoring
- Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments
- Epilogue
- Concluding Remarks
