Third Edition, Zero Injury Safety Guidebook to Zero Employee Injury


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This work tells in Guidebook fashion, how successful companies are achieving Zero employee injury for extended periods of time. This success is reached using research based safety management strategies from the construction industry that apply to employers in any business or industry or culture. Specific examples are presented along with a powerful results oriented, continuous improvement safety management process that is essential for the long term.




The Employer Safety Guidebook to Zero Employee Injury


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The best performers are using the principles below. - Value your most important asset above all else! - Embrace a Corporate vision of Zero Injury. - Obtain Leadership alignment on how to move forward. - Understand the meaning of true safety commitment! - Utilize research proven safety management techniques. - Use Safety Teams to involve your employees. - Safety goals with reviews, structures your progress. The successful are achieving 1,000,000 hours with Zero OSHA Recordable injuries. You can too! The Employer Safety Guidebook tells you how!




From Accidents to Zero


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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.




Zero Accidents


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The Total Preventive Safety or TPS introduced in this book, based on the development script of Sensei Koichi Kimura, sets out a clear and scalable method of participation of ALL workers in the management of safety at work. It is developed done through total participation and the Japanese thinking of continuous improvement or Kaizen, although, oriented to the Western way of thinking. TPS is based on the methods of Factory Management and Occupational Health and Safety development of Japanese companies pioneering the development of total participation systems such as TQM, TPM and TPS. Although now, many of these developments are being known and collected, perhaps erroneously, under the term "Lean Manufacturing / Management". The target of TPS is ZERO ACCIDENTS and ZERO ACCIDENT PRODUCTION BREAKDOWNSThe means used by TPS, to achieve the main "ZERO" goal, is to guide the whole company towards that common goal, teaching all workers to identify, for themselves, the potential dangers and control the causes of accidents and, as a result avoiding autonomously through Kaizen. This manual can also be used as a script for the development of total participation under ISO-45001 (OSHA'S-180001 update) and underpins its development on many of the methods of the Japan Institute of Japan Occupational Health and Safety (JNIOSH) and the Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association (JISHA).




Creating a Zero-Incident Culture


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Creating a Zero-Incident Culture presents a new twist on developing a sustainable safety process in a manufacturing environment. Quite simply, it's about my endeavor to keep employees out of the hospital. My desire is to see each and every employee go home to their families the way each one of them came to work: alive and with all their limbs. So I developed an approach to safety that's simple, straightforward, costs nothing, saves companies millions of dollars, and has been proven to work in various industries. The system is realistic and so easy to implement that anyone can do it.




The Vision Zero Handbook


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This open access handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of Vision Zero, an innovative policy on public road safety developed in Sweden. Covering all the major topics of the subject, the book starts out with a thorough examination of the philosophy, ideas and principles behind Vision Zero. It looks at conditions for the effectiveness of the policy, principles of safety and responsibility as well as critique on the policy. Next, the handbook focuses on how the Vision Zero ideas have been received and implemented in various legislations and countries worldwide. It takes into account the way Vision Zero is looked at in the context of international organizations such as the WHO, the UN, and the OECD. This allows for a comparison of systems, models and effects. The third part of the handbook discusses the management and leadership aspects, including ISO standards, equity issues, other goals for traffic and transportation, and opportunities for the car industry. Part four delves into tools, technologies and organizational measures that contribute to the implementation of Vision Zero in road traffic. Examples of specific elements discussed are urban and rural road designs, human factor designs, and avoiding drunk and distracted driving. The final part of the handbook offers perspectives on the transfer of Vision Zero policy to other areas, ranging from air traffic to suicide prevention and nuclear energy. Vision Zero is a public road safety policy including both a long-term goal that no one shall be killed or seriously injured as a consequence of accidents in road traffic and a safety principle stating that the design and function of the road transport system shall be adapted to meet the requirements that follow from that goal. It is a new road safety paradigm which has resulted in new types of responsibilities among stakeholders, technological innovations, and new strategies and organizational measures to achieve a safe system. The road safety work based on Vision Zero has shown promising results, and although Sweden has not yet reached a safe system, the number of fatalities and severe injuries has decreased substantially. This is an open access book.




SME Mining Engineering Handbook, Third Edition


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This third edition of the SME Mining Engineering Handbook reaffirms its international reputation as "the handbook of choice" for today's practicing mining engineer. It distills the body of knowledge that characterizes mining engineering as a disciplinary field and has subsequently helped to inspire and inform generations of mining professionals.Virtually all of the information is original content, representing the latest information from more than 250 internationally recognized mining industry experts. Within the handbook's 115 thought-provoking chapters are current topics relevant to today's mining professional: Analyzing how the mining and minerals industry will develop over the medium and long term--why such changes are inevitable, what this will mean in terms of challenges, and how they could be managed Explaining the mechanics associated with the multifaceted world of mine and mineral economics, from the decisions associated with how best to finance a single piece of high-value equipment to the long-term cash-flow issues associated with mine planning at a mature operation Describing the recent and ongoing technical initiatives and engineering developments in relation to robotics, automation, acid rock drainage, block caving optimization, or process dewatering methods Examining in detail the methods and equipment available to achieve efficient, predictable, and safe rock breaking, whether employing a tunnel boring machine for development work, mineral extraction using a mobile miner, or cast blasting at a surface coal operation Identifying the salient points that dictate which is the safest, most efficient, and most versatile extraction method to employ, as well as describing in detail how each alternative is engineered Discussing the impacts that social and environmental issues have on mining from the pre-exploration phase to end-of-mine issues and beyond, and how to manage these two increasingly important factors to the benefit of both the mining companies and other stakeholders







Healthcare Hazard Control and Safety Management, Third Edition


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Comprehensive in scope, this totally revamped edition of a bestseller is the ideal desk reference for anyone tasked with hazard control and safety management in the healthcare industry. Presented in an easy-to-read format, Healthcare Hazard Control and Safety Management, Third Edition examines hazard control and safety management as proactive functions of an organization. Like its popular predecessors, the book supplies a complete overview of hazard control, safety management, compliance, standards, and accreditation in the healthcare industry. This edition includes new information on leadership, performance improvement, risk management, organizational culture, behavioral safety, root cause analysis, and recent OSHA and Joint Commission Emergency Management requirements and regulatory changes. The book illustrates valuable insights and lessons learned by author James T. Tweedy, executive director of the International Board for Certification of Safety Managers. In the text, Mr. Tweedy touches on the key concepts related to safety management that all healthcare leaders need to understand. Identifies common factors that are often precursors to accidents in the healthcare industry Examines the latest OSHA and Joint Commission Emergency Management Requirements and Standards Covers facility safety, patient safety, hazardous substance safety, imaging and radiation safety, infection control and prevention, and fire safety management Includes references to helpful information from federal agencies, standards organizations, and voluntary associations Outlining a proactive hazard control approach based on leadership involvement, the book identifies the organizational factors that support accident prevention. It also examines organizational dynamics and supplies tips for improving organizational knowledge management. Complete with accompanying checklists and sample management plans that readers can immediately put to use, this text is currently the primary study reference for the Certified Healthcare Safety Professional Examination.




Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 7)


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The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low- and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the burden, as well as economic analyses of platforms and packages for delivering cost-effective and feasible interventions in these settings. The volume's contributors demonstrate that implementation of a range of prevention strategies-presented in an essential package of interventions and policies-could achieve a convergence in death and disability rates that would avert more than 7.5 million deaths a year.