Serious Incident Prevention :How to Sustain Accident-Free Operations in Your Plant or Company ( 2 )

Publication subTitle :How to Sustain Accident-Free Operations in Your Plant or Company

Publication series :2

Author: Burns   Thomas  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9780080480855

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780750675215

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780750675215

Subject: X931 Industrial Safety (general)

Language: ENG

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Description

This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort.

Serious incidents affect a company's most important and most visible measures of performance, including profitability and company image. Use the author's ground-breaking method for preventing serious incidents, from a team perspective. Whether applied in real-life situations or in the classroom, this method will help you create a safer, more profitable plant.

Up to date information and expanded topic coverage is provided in this new edition. There are two new chapters. One covers leveraging the power of behavior-based techniques and the other covers the benefits of developing teamwork skills. New material features case studies of corporations that have achieved a high degree of success from the implementation of Burns' techniques. Additionally, the author has included safety performance scorecards, a practical and effective tool for preventing serious incidents.

  • Updated with all new material on teamwork skills and behavior-based techniques
  • This unique method shows the user how to prevent serious incidents before they occur
  • Includes cases of real-life examples and safety performance scorecards

Chapter

Front cover

pp.:  1 – 4

Serious Incident Prevention

pp.:  4 – 5

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 8

Contents

pp.:  8 – 10

Preface

pp.:  10 – 12

Chapter 1. The Improvement Challenge

pp.:  12 – 32

Chapter 2. The Barriers to Improvement

pp.:  32 – 40

Chapter 3. A Proven Process Improvement Model

pp.:  40 – 48

Chapter 4. Management Commitment and Leadership

pp.:  48 – 59

Chapter 5. Employee Involvement

pp.:  59 – 71

Chapter 6. Employee Involvement„Developing Teamwork

pp.:  71 – 79

Chapter 7. Understanding the Risks

pp.:  79 – 94

Chapter 8. Identifying the Critical Work

pp.:  94 – 107

Chapter 9. Identifying the Critical Work„Management of Change

pp.:  107 – 114

Chapter 10. Establishing Performance Standards

pp.:  114 – 122

Chapter 11. Measurement and Feedback

pp.:  122 – 137

Chapter 12. Measurement and Feedback„Safety Performance Indexing

pp.:  137 – 152

Chapter 13. Reinforcement and Corrective Action

pp.:  152 – 164

Chapter 14. Improving and Updating the Process

pp.:  164 – 170

Chapter 15. Applying the Process Model„A Case Study

pp.:  170 – 201

Chapter 16. Responding to the Challenge

pp.:  201 – 208

Index

pp.:  208 – 210