This book provides a detailed analysis of the behavioural, psychological and human dimensions of health and safety in the workplace. "The Human Side of Safety" offers clear practical advice on the way safety relates to the behaviour of individuals, groups and whole organizations. It is based on rigorous theoretical perspectives and emprirical findings and uses significant real life examples and cases. This book should be of interest to safety officers, occupational psychologists, human resource managers and general managers with a responsibility for safety or participating on a safety course; trainers, lecturers, senior students specifically studying health and safety, general management, business, HRM, personnel, organizational behaviour, psychology, engineering, environmental health and nursing studies.
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This book offers an unusually rich blend of psychology and safety science. Should be required reading for those who strive to maintain evidence-based practice in safety management. We will be adopting it as a core text for our Psychology of Risk and Safety course.
About the First Edition -- N. Dominic Cooper, Applied Behavioural Sciences, University of Hull in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
About the First Edition -- N. Dominic Cooper, Applied Behavioural Sciences, University of Hull in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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