Safety Insights: Success and Failure Stories of Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780367445720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str.

Nektarios Karanikas; Maria Mikela Chatzimichaili

Opis

Public safety as well as the safety of products and services is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organizations and the society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we take them for granted and we do not appreciate the challenges professionals meet to make the world as safe as possible.

Spis treści

Preface. Editors. Contributors. 1 System Knowledge: Most of the Times Adequate but Sometimes Insufficient. 2 Safety Interventions: How Can We Make Them Worth the Effort? 3 Only a Few Seconds to Change the Course of an Event. 4 How Could the Use of Technology Support Safety Management Programmes? 5 How to Eat an Elephant: Implementing Organisational Culture Change. 6 Is Safety Part of Your Business Model? Turning a ‘Simple-to-Fix’ Safety Incident into an Opportunity for Everyone. 7 The Development of Mental Health Proxy Teams and a Relationship That Threatened the Quality of a Safety Investigation. 8 Passenger Experience and Safety Systems. 9 Safety Numbers and Safety Differently. 10 Infrastructure Projects as Complex Socio-Technical Systems. 11 The Two Sides of the Same Coin. 12 Learning from Incidents: Mind the Whole Set of Dimensions. 13 Necessary Incompliance and Safety-Threatening Collegiality. 14 Are the Stakeholders on Your Side or Not? 15 Making Safety a Priority. 16 The Practical Value of Ensuring Effective Interfaces and Workforce Engagement. 17 Just When You Thought You’d Done Enough. Index.