ABSTRACT

As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions. However, there is still a gulf between these two groups where engagement, communication and shared understanding can be found lacking. From Accidents to Zero opens up the field of safety culture and breaks it down into bite-sized pieces to facilitate new, critical thought and inspire practical action.

Based on the concept of creating safety, as opposed to just preventing accidents, each of the 26 chapters in this user-friendly book includes explanation, commentary, reflections and practical activities designed to systematically and sustainably improve workplace safety culture. Core topics range from behaviour to values, daily rituals to unsafe acts, felt leadership to trust.

Andrew Sharman's practical guide blends current academic thinking with authoritative guidance and sets up the opportunity for all parts of the organization to close the gap by providing very clear steps to thinking and acting differently. It sparks insight into how both traditional methods and novel approaches can be brought to life in real world situations. From Accidents to Zero offers a clear route to culture change through over one hundred pragmatic ideas to motivate and lead people, influence behaviour and drive a positive evolution in workplace safety.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |6 pages

A Accidents

chapter |10 pages

B Behaviour

chapter C|12 pages

C Culture

chapter |8 pages

D Daily Rituals

chapter |4 pages

E Evolution

chapter |6 pages

F Felt Leadership

chapter |8 pages

G Groups

chapter |6 pages

H Hawthorne Effect

chapter I|4 pages

I Inattentional Blindness

chapter |8 pages

J Just Culture

chapter |6 pages

K Kahneman

chapter L|8 pages

L Leadership

chapter |14 pages

M Mindfulness

chapter |6 pages

N Near Misses

chapter |10 pages

O Observation

chapter |8 pages

P Performance

chapter |4 pages

Q Quality

chapter |12 pages

R Risk

chapter |8 pages

S Safety

chapter |6 pages

T Trust

chapter |8 pages

U Unsafe Acts

chapter V|8 pages

V Values

chapter |8 pages

W Words

chapter X|4 pages

X X Factor

chapter |2 pages

Y You

chapter |8 pages

Z Zero

chapter |6 pages

Epilogue