This exploratory research employs a series of cases studies and a multi-stakeholder
perspective to examine safety practices and outcomes in the wider context of business …

Introduction In spite of increasing governmental and organizational efforts, organizations still
struggle to improve the safety of their employees as evidenced by the yearly 2.3 million work …

Abstract 'Safety work'consists of activities, conducted within organisations, that have the
primary purpose of managing safety. Safety work is distinct from operational work, which …

Despite the extensive literature on safety, few tools have been available to help managers
quantitatively assess the level of safety management and the quality of the safety practices …

The challenge to improve safety at work remains a key concern of many organizations, as
traditional approaches to safety in organizations have not had the anticipated impact of …

In view of safety management being introduced in more and more industries, the aim of this
paper is to discuss what different high-risk industries can learn from each other and what …

A number of key concepts have punctuated the development of Safety science. Reflecting
on what the next ones could be is a tricky exercise. How come certain safety concepts or …

Regulators have increasingly started to focus on safety culture. The causal link between
regulatory initiatives to improve safety culture and a potential decline in accidents may …

There are many definitions of safety, but most of them are variations on the theme that safety
can be measured by the number of adverse outcomes and must be enforced by using more …

The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and
to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in …