Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach

This volume offers the most comprehensive approach to developing an effective safety culture. Information is easily accessible as the authors move first through, understanding the cost of incidents, then to perspectives and descriptions of management systems, principal management leadership traits, establishing and evaluating goals and objectives, providing visible leadership, and assigning required responsibilities. In addition, you are given the means to systematically identifying hazards and develop your own hazard inventory and control system.

Further information on OSHA requirements for training, behavior-based safety processes, and the development of a job hazard analysis for each task is available as well. Valuable case studies, from the authors' own experience in the industry, are used throughout to demonstrate the concepts presented.

* Provides the tools to rebuild or enhance a desired safety culture
* Allows you to identify a program that will fit your specific application
* Examines different philosophies in relation to safety culture development

Audience: Safety and Human Resources Managers; Industrial Managers; Safety consultants, trainers, auditors, and hiring managers.

Provides the tools to rebuild or enhance a desired safety culture. -Allows you to identify a program that will fit your specific application. -Examines different philosophies in relation to safety culture development.

Developing an Effective Safety Culture implements a simple philosophy, namely thatworking safely is a cultural issue. An effective safety culture will eventually lead to the desired goal of zero incidents in the work place, and this book will provide an understanding of what is needed to reach this goal. The authors present reference material for all phases of building a safety management system and ultimately developing a safety program that fits the culture.

James E. Roughton's experience includes four years military and 36 years in industry in various capacities. For the past 27 years he has aided in developing safety management systems to enhance safety leadership. He is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), Certified Environmental Trainer (CET) and, a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Mr Roughton received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Christopher Newport College and his Masters in Safety Science degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). He is the past President of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Georgia Chapter, an active member of the safety advisory board of the Department of Labor of Georgia, Vice Chair for the Gwinnett Safety Professionals Association, co-founder and Past President of the Heart of Georgia Safety Society, a member of the board of directors and adjunct instructor for the Occupational Health and Safety Technology Program at Lanier Tech, and adjunct instructor at Georgia Tech. Mr Roughton is also an accomplished author and manages his own web site, http://www.emeetingplace.com, where he provides a resource network for other professionals. He has received several management awards for his efforts and was named the Georgia chapter Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) 1998-1999.