Keeping People Safe

The Human Dynamics of Injury Prevention

By (author) Ph. D. Williams Foreword by D. Scott D. Geller

Not available to order

Publication date:

16 April 2010

Length of book:

156 pages

Publisher

Government Institutes

ISBN-13: 9781605906775

Many companies have taken steps to improve awareness and management of safety systems, yet safety directors continue to report high injury rates. In Keeping People Safe: The Human Dynamics of Injury Prevention, author Josh Williams provides safety leaders with information they can use to further reduce injuries and improve workplace safety. This book addresses five integral components of workplace safety: Systems/Conditions, Leadership, Behaviors, People-Factors, and Communication. It recommends strategies for every aspect of safety management from organizational commitment and safety culture to improving managerial behavior and working with union members. These recommendations are based on years of practical experience, empirical research on the human dynamics of safety, and seminal studies in social psychology on authority and conformity. Utilizing the hugely influential and widely practiced model of Behavior Based Safety, Williams provides the safety manager with all the tools needed to lower injury rates and improve safety. Numerous charts and tables, a checklist for improving safety performance, and a foreword by world-renowned safety leader E. Scott Geller complement the text.
In Keeping People Safe, Dr. Josh Williams provides us with insights from his experience of 15 years working to improve employee safety. He asks what leaders can do to impact employee motivation, attitudes, and, most importantly, the behaviors that put them at risk by extending the discussion of People-Based Safety (PBS) emphasized by E. Scott Geller. Dr. Williams translates the extensive research behind PBS into straightforward examples of principles shown to impact organizational safety culture (and mixes in humor while he's at it). The level of detail and tested advice in this book will make it THE desktop companion for any safety professional.