Serious incident prevention : how to achieve and sustain accident-free operations in your plant or compan

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Title:

Personal Author:

Burns, Thomas. 1946-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Amsterdam : Gulf Professional Publishing, 2002

ISBN:

9780750675215

Subject Term:

Industrial safety

Accidents -- Prevention

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Searching... PSZ JB	30000004987313	T55 B87 2002	Open Access Book	Book	Searching... Unknown

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.

Preface	p. ix
Chapter 1 The Improvement Challenge	p. 1
Chapter 2 The Barriers to Improvement	p. 21
Chapter 3 A Proven Process Improvement Model	p. 29
Chapter 4 Management Commitment and Leadership	p. 37
Chapter 5 Employee Involvement	p. 48
Chapter 6 Employee Involvement--Developing Teamwork	p. 60
Chapter 7 Understanding the Risks	p. 68
Chapter 8 Identifying the Critical Work	p. 83
Chapter 9 Identifying the Critical Work--Management of Change	p. 96
Chapter 10 Establishing Performance Standards	p. 103
Chapter 11 Measurement and Feedback	p. 111
Chapter 12 Measurement and Feedback--Safety Performance Indexing	p. 126
Chapter 13 Reinforcement and Corrective Action	p. 141
Chapter 14 Improving and Updating the Process	p. 153
Chapter 15 Applying the Process Model--A Case Study	p. 159
Chapter 16 Responding to the Challenge	p. 190
Index	p. 197

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