Serious Incident Prevention

This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort.

Serious incidents affect a company's most important and most visible measures of performance, including profitability and company image. Use the author's ground-breaking method for preventing serious incidents, from a team perspective. Whether applied in real-life situations or in the classroom, this method will help you create a safer, more profitable plant.
Up to date information and expanded topic coverage is provided in this new edition. There are two new chapters. One covers leveraging the power of behavior-based techniques and the other covers the benefits of developing teamwork skills. New material features case studies of corporations that have achieved a high degree of success from the implementation of Burns' techniques. Additionally, the author has included safety performance scorecards, a practical and effective tool for preventing serious incidents.

• Updated with all new material on teamwork skills and behavior-based techniques

• This unique method shows the user how to prevent serious incidents before they occur

• Includes cases of real-life examples and safety performance scorecards

This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort.

This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort.

Serious incidents affect a company's most important and most visible measures of performance, including profitability and company image. Use the author's ground-breaking method for preventing serious incidents, from a team perspective. Whether applied in real-life situations or in the classroom, this method will help you create a safer, more profitable plant.
Up to date information and expanded topic coverage is provided in this new edition. There are two new chapters. One covers leveraging the power of behavior-based techniques and the other covers the benefits of developing teamwork skills. New material features case studies of corporations that have achieved a high degree of success from the implementation of Burns' techniques. Additionally, the author has included safety performance scorecards, a practical and effective tool for preventing serious incidents.

* Updated with all new material on teamwork skills and behavior-based techniques

* This unique method shows the user how to prevent serious incidents before they occur

* Includes cases of real-life examples and safety performance scorecards

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Proactive rather than reactive is the byword to workplace safety of the president of a consulting and training firm offering a prevention process improvement model. The emphasis is on establishing performance standards with ongoing feedback as an organizational priority before a catastrophic incident jolts management complacency. The author discusses serious incidents of the past, barriers to improvement, employee involvement, and identification of the critical work. A hypothetical case study features graphic representations of the model's components. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)