Health & Safety

A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney..

This book will address key organizational issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing Lean business practices. The book offers solutions for many of the challenges, provides a resource that leaders can use in addressing cultural and regulatory issues, provides means to address the..

This how-to manual on the proper integration of safety and environmental sustainability with Lean implementations supplies a proven recipe for achieving safety and sustainability excellence. It is the result of the author’s decades of experience implementing Lean; Safety, Health, and Environmental (..

This resource presents more than 500 ideas, concepts, and techniques that can be applied and tailored to unique circumstances. After an introduction to general concepts and approaches, the authors examine vulnerabilities in medical services, including emergency services, healthcare facilities, and i..

Providing a thorough understanding of how to develop and manage a comprehensive motor fleet safety and instructional program, this newly updated edition presents the underlying concepts, basic techniques, and principles of motor fleet safety and security management. It addresses the critical steps f..

Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors is a wide-ranging compendium of contemporary SMS and HF approaches from the aviation, road, rail and medical domains. It brings together 27 chapters from both the academic and professional worlds that focus on applications, tools and strategies in SMS a..

Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors is a wide-ranging compendium of contemporary SMS and HF approaches from the aviation, road, rail and medical domains. It brings together 27 chapters from both the academic and professional worlds that focus on applications, tools and strategies in SMS a..

A complete practical guide for the development and management of occupational safety and health programs in any industry setting, this book includes examples and tools to facilitate development and implementation of a safety and health management approach. This is how to book not just an information..

With coverage ranging from the influence of professional identity in medicine and problematic nature of "human error," to the psychological and social features that characterize healthcare work, to the safety-critical aspects of interfaces and automation, this book spans the width of the human facto..

Researchers, healthcare managers and human factors practitioners who need to know the latest developments within the theory and application of Patient Safety Culture within healthcare should read this book. It brings together contributions from the most prominent researchers and practitioners in the..

Every workplace contains dangers, especially those devoted to technology, machinery, and potentially hazardous material. This second edition of a bestseller provides readers with the information they need to understand the regulations that provide for facility safety and their successful implementat..

There's a new set of 3Rs for our kids-respect, responsibility, and resilience-to better prepare them for life in the real world. Once developed, these skills let kids take charge, and let parents step back, to the benefit of all. Casting hover mothers and helicopter parents aside, Vicki Hoefle encou..