ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter A|6 pages

Accidents

chapter B|10 pages

Behaviour

chapter C|12 pages

Culture

chapter D|8 pages

Daily Rituals

chapter E|4 pages

Evolution

chapter F|6 pages

Felt Leadership

chapter G|8 pages

Groups

chapter H|6 pages

Hawthorne Effect

chapter I|4 pages

Inattentional Blindness

chapter J|8 pages

Just Culture

chapter K|6 pages

Kahneman

chapter L|8 pages

Leadership

chapter M|11 pages

Mindfulness

chapter N|6 pages

Near Misses

chapter O|10 pages

Observation

chapter P|8 pages

Performance

chapter Q|4 pages

Quality

chapter R|12 pages

Risk

chapter S|8 pages

Safety

chapter T|6 pages

Trust

chapter U|8 pages

Unsafe Acts

chapter V|8 pages

Values

chapter W|8 pages

Words

chapter X|4 pages

X Factor

chapter Y|2 pages

You

chapter Z|8 pages

Zero

chapter |6 pages

Epilogue