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The British Prime Minister has avowed to 'kill off the health and
safety culture' which he described as 'a monster'. Nonetheless,
industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative
pressure to improve safety when, actually, rates of safety
improvement have slowed to a standstill. In Safety Can't Be
Measured, Andrew Townsend suggests the main reason for the
stagnation of safety improvement is the failure to recognise the
evolution in accident causation and to evolve with it. He severely
criticises some aspects of current day management of occupational
safety and contends that everyone is trying to continuously improve
something in which improvement cannot be measured, so the received
wisdom underpinning safety management and regulation is not
evidence-based and much of it is misguided. What is measured is the
absence of safety - through incidents, injuries and the occurrence
of ill health. We cannot continue to justify these ways of doing
things, and claiming success by association, without admitting
there might be other explanations. In this series of short
chapters, occupational health and safety is put in context by
demystifying the research, regulation and management of health and
safety. Using evidence, Townsend challenges orthodox dogma by
demonstrating that currently unused data could help deduce how
safety really works, and thus support alternative thought processes
from which new approaches to risk reduction and safety management
could emerge.
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