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Safety Culture - Assessing and Changing the Behaviour of Organisations (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Safety Culture - Assessing and Changing the Behaviour of Organisations (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Facility safety is an important commercial risk and it has to be
managed insists 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
organisations. Accidents can take up to thirty percentage points
off annual profits and, often, failure to manage safety has a much
larger social cost that can involve fatalities or serious injury to
members of the workforce and public. This has been starkly
demonstrated in the railway industry, the international atomic
energy industry, and through events in the oil exploration and
refinery industry. In business terms, the ultimate cost can be
receivership. Safety Culture highlights examples ranging from the
loss of the Titanic, to Bhopal, and the Tokaimura criticality
event. In it Dr Taylor argues that to minimise risks, any hazardous
facility requires robustly engineered safety systems, an effective
management system and a developed organisational safety culture.
Safety culture is a complex social/scientific concept and Dr Taylor
demystifies it with reference to theory normally associated with
mainstream business development and change processes. Sections of
the book deal with using safety culture theory as a predictive
model, the assessment of safety culture, and how to influence
culture change to produce the desired organisational behaviours.
This is a practically focused book from an author with vast
experience at the top level of high hazard industries, he brings
together current academic thinking on the concept of safety culture
and provides authoritative practical guidance for operational
executives, managers and for students in science, safety technology
and engineering disciplines.
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