Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition (Hardcover)

by A. Ian Glendon (Author), Sharon G. Clarke (Author), Eugene F. McKenna (Author)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
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."
-- Rhona Flin, Professor of Applied Psychology, University of Aberdeen
About the First Edition:
 "…The book provides useful comprehensive overviews of its subject matter. Its wide coverage of occupational psychology topics and how they relate to workplace safety should ensure a wide appeal …The book contains much valuable information, and provides a useful contribution to a neglected area within occupational and organizational psychology."
-- N. Dominic Cooper, Applied Behavioural Sciences, University of Hull in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

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

Product Description
Reflecting a decade’s worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of the material from the earlier edition. Examining a wide range of approaches to risk, the authors define safety culture and review theoretical models that elucidate mechanisms linking safety culture with safety performance.

Filled with practical examples and case studies and drawing on a range of disciplines, the book explores individual differences and the many ways in which human beings are alike within a risk and safety context. It delineates a risk management approach that includes a range of techniques such as risk assessment, safety audit, and safety interventions. The authors address concepts central to workplace safety such as attitudes and their link with behavior. They discuss managing behavior in work environments including key functions and benefits of groups, factors influencing team effectiveness, and barriers to effectiveness such as groupthink.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (April 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849330904
• ISBN-13: 978-0849330902
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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