Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies [Hardcover]

Dan Hopwood (Author), Steve Thompson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782136044 | ISBN-13: 978-0782136043 | Publication Date: September 11, 2006 | Edition: 1

Workplace Safety: A Guide For Small & Mid-Sized Companies, by Dan Hopwood and Steve Thompson, uses a straight-forward approach to creating the basic elements of a successful safety program. This book will provide updated information and real world examples illustrating how to prevent as well as confront the common health and safety issues that arise in the workplace. It includes information on core OSHA regulatory requirements, safety needs assessment, workers' compensation and insurance, disaster and emergency planning, ergonomics, risk management and loss prevention, injury management, incident investigation, workplace security, best practices, and workplace safety culture formation.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is the best 35 bucks you’ll likely spend regarding your business’s health and well-being, as it guides the reader into creating a program tailored to suit their own situation, not relying on someone else’s “one size fits all” generic program." (Worksafely.com; 8/2007)

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Drawing on authors Dan Hopwood and Steve Thompson's combined fifty years of experience as practicing safety professionals, teachers, and business managers, Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies helps you create a Workplace Safety Plan, save money on workers' compensation insurance costs, comply with regulations, and make the workplace safer. This timely book is written with the multitasking manager and business owner of small and midsized businesses in mind and presents practical advice that facilitates making workplace safety a priority without it becoming a burden.

Recognizing that no single plan will work for every business, this guide shows you how to create a Workplace Safety Program that is directly related to your operations, the exposures that exist within it, and the controls necessary to reduce the potential for injuries and illnesses. It will help you determine an effective approach to leading your workplace safety efforts, and includes valuable resources (in the book and online) such as a needs assessment, a twelve-month safety calendar, and OSHA forms.

Key strategies and features include:

• Reducing workers' compensation insurance costs and managing injuries and illness
• Examples of specific safety and health considerations, hazards, and their controls
• Essential information and resources for compliance with OSHA
• A review of advanced topics such as Emergency Planning and Response
• Choosing the right insurance agent/broker and workers' compensation insurance programs
• Going beyond compliance—what are the "best safety practices" incorporated by successful companies
• Enlightening feedback from top safety professionals: "Greatest Lessons Learned in Achieving Safety Success"
• Corresponding online resource library at www.workplacesafetynow.com

Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies shows you how to build a consistent and successful safety program through its user-friendly, nontechnical presentation, to enable you and your staff to efficiently grasp the relationship between injuries and illnesses and regulatory mandates and financial management.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782136044
• ISBN-13: 978-0782136043
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #963,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful guidance on keeping your workplace safe, July 19, 2007

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies (Hardcover)

Many workplaces seem quite safe. There are no open mine-shafts to fall into, no baths of sulfuric acid to spill, no explosives lying about ready to be ignited. And yet, according to professional safety consultants Dan Hopwood and Steve Thompson, every workplace needs a detailed, current and well-documented program to protect the health and safety of employees. While the hazards have changed, the risk of injury remains. Rather than spiraling down a mine-shaft, a worker might get a repetitive stress injury. Rather than spilling acid in the doughnuts, a worker might pull a muscle lifting a heavy box. Rather than dropping a cigarette onto some dynamite, a worker might inhale an irritant that causes a chronic lung condition. In each case, the results can include missed work, disrupted lives, insurance claims that increase your premiums and fines for regulatory violations. This brief book will help you avoid all that, whether you are just starting your safety program or re-engineering it. Many checklists and useful appendices nicely complement the text. We feel safe recommending this sensible guide.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for a New Safety Professional, March 11, 2007

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Cathi Marx "Cathi L. Marx, ALCM, COSS" (San Diego USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies (Hardcover)

Steve and Dan have written a concise book that outlines step-by-step what all new safety professionals need to know in order to create a positive safety culture within their organizations. The Appendix, References and Resources sections are the best I have ever seen. For any person given the responsibility of safety management and who want to "save lives, prevent injuries and illnesses and protect their companies from financial harm", this is the place to begin. Thank you Steve and Dan for this contribution to protect our workforce, and help to ensure that everyone has a chance to go home safe each night to their families.

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, very well-written, and so useful !, March 7, 2007

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Robert W. Teschke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies (Hardcover)

Dan and Steve successfully put together not just a well-written book loaded with many outstanding hints and ideas, they also included so many practical tools that the small to medium sized business can begin using immediately to improve workplace safety. It should be a "must read" for any business if they are really serious about this often overlooked issue. If just some of the ideas suggested by Dan and Steve are implemented, it can have a dramatic impact not only on employee safety and morale, but bottom-line profits as well. Thanks Dan and Steve !!