Safety improvement has actually slowed to a standstill. In Safety Can't Be Measured, Andrew Townsend suggests the main reason is the failure to recognise the evolution in accident causation and to evolve with it. He contends that everyone is trying to continuously improve something in which improvement cannot be measured. What is measured is the absence of safety - through incidents, injuries and the occurrence of ill health. We cannot justify these ways and claim success by association, without admitting there might be other explanations. Through these short chapters, occupational health and…mehr
Safety improvement has actually slowed to a standstill. In Safety Can't Be Measured, Andrew Townsend suggests the main reason is the failure to recognise the evolution in accident causation and to evolve with it. He contends that everyone is trying to continuously improve something in which improvement cannot be measured. What is measured is the absence of safety - through incidents, injuries and the occurrence of ill health. We cannot justify these ways and claim success by association, without admitting there might be other explanations. Through these 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, 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.
Andrew Townsend had degrees in chemical engineering and safety management. He spent most of his active working life with Esso Petroleum as a construction engineer and project manager in petro-chemical complexes. Townsend also carried out in-house research at Esso and later ran his own health and safety consultancy and acted as a safety auditor. Medical retirement brought a premature end to his active career in industry. He returned to study and research, subsequently being offered the opportunity to undertake a research PhD at Southampton University School of Management. Andrew Townsend's particular approach to blending experience and learning was applied and tested during his time as a member of a national ski coaching team and whilst crewing racing yachts.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Victims and Death and Illness in Context Chapter 2 Who is Who in Occupational Health and Safety Chapter 3 Numbers and Meanings Chapter 4 Health and Safety Law and Its Enforcement - Chimera or Ogre? Chapter 5 The Concepts of Risk, Reasonably Practicable and Reasonably Foreseeable Chapter 6 History of Accident Causation Theory Chapter 7 Exploring Large Organisations - To Fear or Not to Fear? Chapter 8 Health and Safety - A Profession under Scrutiny Chapter 9 Paradoxes and Dilemmas Chapter 10 Alternative Ways of Thinking Chapter 11 Conclusions Chapter 101 Afterword
Chapter 1 Victims and Death and Illness in Context Chapter 2 Who is Who in Occupational Health and Safety Chapter 3 Numbers and Meanings Chapter 4 Health and Safety Law and Its Enforcement - Chimera or Ogre? Chapter 5 The Concepts of Risk, Reasonably Practicable and Reasonably Foreseeable Chapter 6 History of Accident Causation Theory Chapter 7 Exploring Large Organisations - To Fear or Not to Fear? Chapter 8 Health and Safety - A Profession under Scrutiny Chapter 9 Paradoxes and Dilemmas Chapter 10 Alternative Ways of Thinking Chapter 11 Conclusions Chapter 101 Afterword
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