Where Next for Health and Safety?
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Where Next for Health and Safety? evaluates the levels and types of competences required for the development and implementation of health and safety and is designed to encourage progressive ideas on the subject. Drawing on the authors’ experience working in many areas of safety, combined with extensive interviews with a broad range of industry professionals, the book offers an assessment of current trends and challenges facing the profession, and recommendations that will help to promote all forms of safety in the world of work.
Drawing on industry research as well as numerous real-world examples, the book
- considers how the discipline of health and safety has evolved
- discusses current issues and challenges
- reflects on the future prospects and opportunities for improvement
- highlights the importance of proportionate risk management advocates holistic reasoning, encouraging safety professionals to think beyond legislative requirements
- explores the actual risks in any process as a way to create solutions that are not only safe but also productive.
Where Next for Health and Safety? is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of health and safety, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking analysis. It will be a valuable resource and catalyst for change for all those with a responsibility for health and safety, as well as managers, policymakers, researchers and educators.
Foreword; David Towlson
- A View from Afar: An Alternative Foreword; Tyler Baker
- Biographies
- Introduction
- Chapter 1, Health and safety: The Origins;
- Chapter 2: The Reality of Where Health and Safety is Today;
- Chapter 3: The End Game for Health and Safety;
- References;
- Index
Being sincere in our drive for continued improvement, we have to accept that we don’t learn from a standing still position, and that we are limited by our own knowledge and the fear of nudging or perhaps even poking the bear. This book is timely, thought provoking and will without doubt press some buttons, but without debate there is no movement, and without movement there is no progress, and so without progress there is no improvement.
Diving deep into the realm of workplace health and safety, this book provides an objective, evidence-based analysis. It calls upon industries to acknowledge the hidden truths, streamline complexities, and foster a culture of simplicity for a healthier and safer working environment.
Where Next for Health and Safety? is an interesting book, one that does a good job of looking at how the profession got to where it is and what we should do to go forward. On the whole, I found myself nodding along and mentally underlining passages. I am very glad to have the opportunity to read this and it will be a treasured volume on my shelf...I certainly enjoyed reading the book and, most importantly, it made me think and research some of the topics more. For this reason alone, it belongs on my bookshelf and a well-thumbed copy should be on the bookshelf of every practitioner. After all, who else is asking Where Next for Health and Safety?
David England DipNEBOSH, FIIRSM, FIConstM, RSP is a consultant in safety and risk management.
Dr Andy Painting PhD CEng FSARS FIConstM MIET is founder of Attis Engineering Solutions Ltd.