This book # Focuses on physical aspects of workplaces and people's behavior in them; # Explores the impact of leadership on safety performance, failures of leadership, and managing leadership roles to reduce risk and improve organizational safety; # Examines workplace stress and how to deal with it effectively, providing individual and organizational intervention strategies; # Provides a review of theoretical models that elucidate mechanisms linking safety culture with safety performance; and # Discusses changes in terminology such as the controversy over the term 'accident'. Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of the material from the earlier edition. Examining a wide range of approaches to risk, the authors define safety culture and review theoretical models that elucidate mechanisms linking safety culture with safety performance. Filled with practical examples and case studies and drawing on a range of disciplines, the book explores individual differences and the many ways in which human beings are alike within a risk and safety context. It delineates a risk management approach that includes a range of techniques such as risk assessment, safety audit, and safety interventions. The authors address concepts central to workplace safety such as attitudes and their link with behavior. They discuss managing behavior in work environments including key functions and benefits of groups, factors influencing team effectiveness, and barriers to effectiveness such as groupthink. (Author/publisher)
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