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Summary
Summary
This book introduces the unique concept of Total Safety Management (TSM) for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment. This can become a key element in an organization's formula for competitiveness. Using a step-by-step approach with examples and case studies throughout, the book provides a practical, how-to handbook that can be used as an annotated model for implementing TSM in any organization. It shows not only how organizations can create a work environment that is both safe and conducive to peak performance, but how a safe work environment becomes part of everybody's responsibility for creating and maintaining a strategy that will give an organization a sustainable competitive advantage. For anyone interested in Health & Safety Management, Occupational Safety, and Safety in the Workplace.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Overview of TSM |
| 1 Step Gain Executive Commitment |
| 2 Step Establish the TSM Steering Committee |
| 3 Step Mold the Steering Committee into a Team |
| 4 Step Give the Steering Committee Safety and Health Awareness Training |
| 5 Step Develop the Organization's Safety and Health Vision and Guiding Principles |
| 6 Step Develop the Organization's Safety and Health Mission and Objectives |
| 7 Step Communicate and Inform |
| 8 Step Identify the Organization's Safety and Health Strengths and Weaknesses |
| 9 Step Identify Safety and Health Advocates and Resisters |
| 10 Step Identify Initial Employee Perceptions Concerning the Work Environment |
| 11 Step Tailoring the Implementation to the Organization |
| 12 Step Identify Specific Improvement Projects |
| 13 Step Establish, Train, and Activate Improvement Project Teams |
| 14 Step Activate the Feedback Loop |
| 15 Step Establish a TSM Culture |
| Appendix A Hazard-Prevention Checklist |
| Index |
