ABSTRACT
The fully developed safety system focuses on minimizing the number and severity of accidents, continuously improving and achieving a culture of full management and employee involvement in safety. Behavior-based safety is a systematic process which has natural ties to quality management and has proven beneficial in improving safety programs. L. Hansen thoroughly reviews the failings of most safety management programs. He describes safety as most often isolated from the mainstream of an organization and left to “staff managers who lack the authority and organizational position to effect change". The factors that were found to correlate with better incident statistics were management and cultural factors such as: management involvement, financial support, management – union relations, attitude toward employees, supervisor interactions, planning, and job quality. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
