The Psychology of Safety Handbook

The Psychology of Safety Handbook Review

You cannot improve your organization's safety performance to enviable levels without addressing human behavior and attitude effectively. The only comprehensive reference on the psychology of the human dynamics of safety, The Psychology of Safety Handbook shows you how to apply psychology to improve safety and health in your organization. Dr. Geller provides theory, procedures, and tools to guide your organization's long-term continuous improvement.

Based on Dr. Geller's bestselling The Psychology of Safety, this new and expanded Handbook gives you everything you need to decrease the frequency and severity of accidental injuries in your organization. He covers all areas of psychology directly relevant to understanding and influencing safety-related behaviors.

Engineering interventions and government policy have made their mark on injury reduction. Now it is time to work with the human dynamics of injury prevention. The cause of most injuries can be attributed to at-risk behavior or insufficient safe behavior. The Psychology of Safety Handbook not only teaches principles and practical procedures for improving safety-related behaviors, but also illustrates how to increase people's willingness to use these techniques to create a Total Safety Culture.

For more than three decades, Professor E. Scott Geller has taught and conducted research as a faculty member of Virginia Tech's Department of Psychology. In this capacity he has authored more than 250 research articles and over 50 books or chapters addressing the development and evaluation of behavior-change interventions to improve quality of life. He has authored seven books on managing behaviors and attitudes for occupational health and safety, including The Psychology of Safety and Working Safe.

Dr. Geller is Senior Partner of Safety Performance Solutions, a leading training and consulting firm helping companies empower their employees to achieve a Total Safety Culture. He has been awarded Fellow status by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality. Moreover, Scott Geller has been honored with three university-wide teaching awards - every one offered by Virginia Tech.

Safety Management Systems in Aviation (Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations)

Safety Management Systems in Aviation (Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations) Review

Although aviation is among the safest modes of transportation in the world today, accidents still happen. In order to further reduce accidents and improve safety, proactive approaches must be adopted by the aviation community. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has mandated that all of its member states implement Safety Management System (SMS) programs in their aviation industries. While some countries (Australia, Canada, members of the European Union, New Zealand) have been engaged in SMS for a few years, it's just now emerging in the United States, and is non-existent in most other countries. This timely and unique book covers the essential points of SMS. The knowledgeable authors go beyond merely defining it; they discuss the quality management underpinnings of SMS, the four pillars, risk management, reliability engineering, SMS implementation, and the scientific rigor that must be designed into proactive safety. This comprehensive work is designed as a textbook for the student of aviation safety, and is an invaluable reference tool for the SMS practitioner in any segment of aviation. The authors introduce a hypothetical airline-oriented safety scenario at the beginning of the book and conclude it at the end, engaging the reader and adding interest to the text. To enhance the practical application of the material, the book also features numerous SMS in Practice commentaries by some of the most respected names in aviation safety.

America's Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered

America's Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered Review

"America's Health Care Safety Net" explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured. At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, the committee recommends concrete strategies for maintaining the viability of the safety net - with innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions. This book examines the health care safety net from the perspectives of key providers and the populations they serve, including: components of the safety net - public hospitals, community clinics, local health departments, and federal and state programs. Mounting pressures on the system - rising numbers of uninsured patients, decline in Medicaid eligibility due to welfare reform, increasing health care access barriers for minority and immigrant populations, and more. Specific consequences for providers and their patients from the competitive, managed care environment - detailing the evolution and impact of Medicaid managed care. Key issues highlighted in four populations are - children with special needs, people with serious mental illness, people with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless.

Employer Rights and Responsibilities Following an OSHA Inspection

Employer Rights and Responsibilities Following an OSHA Inspection Review

This contains important information regarding your rights and responsibilities under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. An OSHA compliance safety and health officer (CSHO) conducts an inspection of your workplace,
in accordance with the OSH Act. After the inspection, the CSHO reports the findings to the Area Director who evaluates them. If a violation exists,
OSHA will issue you a Citation and Notification of Penalty detailing the exact nature of the violation( s) and any associated penalties. A citation informs you of the alleged violation, sets a proposed time period within which to correct the violation, and proposes the appropriate dollar penalties.

The information in this booklet can and should be used as a discussion guide during your closing conference with the OSHA compliance officer. For
each apparent violation found during the inspection, the compliance officer has discussed or will discuss the following with you: Nature of the violation; Possible abatement measures you may take to correct the violative condition;
Possible abatement dates you may be required to meet; and Any penalties that the Area Director may issue.

Preventing Deaths And Injuries While Compacting Or Baling Refuse Material

Preventing Deaths And Injuries While Compacting Or Baling Refuse Material Review

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing deaths and injuries among workers who load, operate, or work near refuse compacting or baling equipment. Recent NIOSH investigations suggest that worker injuries and deaths could be prevented by using safe work procedures, appropriate safety devices, and hazardous energy control programs designed to address the hazards of operating, maintaining, and servicing compacting and baling equipment. This Alert describes five cases of fatal injuries that resulted when workers entered, fell, or were caught and pulled into energized compacting or baling equipment.

The Health & Safety Guide for Film, TV & Theater, Second Edition (Second Edition)

The Health & Safety Guide for Film, TV & Theater, Second Edition (Second Edition) Review

The only resource to offer all vital information about health and safety issues affecting the entertainment industries.

This second edition has been expanded and updated to address new hazards, unique health and safety problems, and particular regulations that threaten anyone working in the entertainment industries today. Artists’ advocate Monona Rossol exposes the hazards of theatrical paints, theatrical makeup, pigments, dyes, plastics, solvents, woodworking, welding, asbestos, fog, and offers practical solutions to these dangers. No one working in the performing arts can afford to skip this handbook packed with life-or-death health and safety information.

DEWALT Construction Safety/OSHA Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference)

DEWALT Construction Safety/OSHA Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference) Review

Many of the essential safety requirements for construction job sites across the US are brought together into this one, single-volume resource for industry professionals. More than 350 pages of OSHA-compliant reference material gives readers total access to critical safety information as it applies to scaffolding, ladders, fall protection, protective equipment, electricity, working in trenches, demolition, and much more. Information is featured for everything that contractors, service technicians, maintenance personnel, plant managers, engineers, designers, and architects need to know about OSHA. Effective safety plans and sample forms are also included.

You Don't Know What You Don't Know: The Health and Safety Guide For College Students (and All Students of Life)

You Don't Know What You Don't Know: The Health and Safety Guide For College Students (and All Students of Life) Review

The 2012 complete health and safety resource for college students. Originally conceived as a pocket guide to survival and success in college and any communal living environment such as the military, summer camps, retreats, college dorms and fraternity and sorority life, the text has evolved into a broad ranging synopsis of the major risks in American life for all adults. Medical knowledge doubles every seven years; keeping current on the critical topics that impact us can be overwhelming. What are the symptoms and signs of meningitis? What are the ‘invisible’ STDs? How can I avoid exposure to bird flu and swine flu? What are the differences in symptoms and treatment between the common cold, the flu and allergies? What drugs are used in date rape? Which herbal remedy can cause intracranial bleeding? How is Vitamin D related to depression and the immune system? Which seat on an airplane should never be reserved? What are the crucial steps to take to avoid identity theft? How do I identify a sociopath? What is the only correct and safe method to jump start a car? These are all crucial things to learn before one encounters them… And this guide is a handy, concise and up to date resource no one should ever be without. Topics covered are the high risk and high probability health dangers adults face, with emphasis on issues that impact all students: choosing a doctor, first aid, fever, headache, meningitis, poisoning, depression, alcohol, drug abuse, steroids, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), toxic shock syndrome, common cold, influenza, flu, bird flu, swine flu, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, acne. Extensive sections on nutrition, exercise, personal safety, motor vehicle safety, travel safety and keys to success such as etiquette and study methods are also included. Even the familiar topics of table settings and correct tipping amounts are covered. For a complete listing of the contents, please see 'Table of Contents' page. For students (and all students of life), it is the foremost, concise and up to date reference covering health, nutrition, exercise, safety and other essential subjects. For parents, it is the gift that provides crucial advice and information for sons and daughters away from home. It is said that ‘Knowledge is power’. But it is also true that ‘Knowledge is health’. Don’t leave for school without it.

Alive and Well at the End of the Day: The Supervisor's Guide to Managing Safety in Operations

Alive and Well at the End of the Day: The Supervisor's Guide to Managing Safety in Operations Review

Proven strategies and tactics that you can use to lead workers to safety

Industrial facilities supervisors, from front-line managers to CEOs, can depend on Alive and Well at the End of the Day for tested and proven management and leadership practices that ensure the safety of their workers. With more than thirty years of hands-on experience in the chemical industry, including front-line management, author Paul Balmert understands the challenges facing supervisors in industrial facilities. His advice, based on firsthand experience, shows you how to identify and correct flaws in industrial practices. Moreover, he shows you how to lead by example, overcoming all obstacles that interfere with safety.

Rather than focus on theory, this book offers concrete strategies and tactics that enable you to:

• Recognize and capitalize on the moments when workers are most receptive to learning safety

• Discover what's really going on when you tour and inspect plant operations

• Engage in a helpful discussion with someone who is not following safety guidelines

• Understand the various types of risk involved in an industrial operation

• Implement a comprehensive strategy to manage and minimize risk

Throughout the book, plenty of case studies and examples illustrate key challenges alongside step-by-step solutions. You'll also learn how to understand and leverage the psychology and motivations of your staff in order to fully implement safety practices and procedures. In short, with this book as your guide, you will be equipped and ready to lead your staff to safety.

Maritime Transportation: Safety Management and Risk Analysis

Maritime Transportation: Safety Management and Risk Analysis Review

Shipping and marine transportation is a highly regulated global industry. With heightened public awareness of the environmental and human cost of marine accidents, and tighter legislation from governments and international bodies on ships and shipping operations, the safe and efficient operation of ships is a priority for all ship builders, owners and operators. This book is the essential guide to the safety of maritime transportation for anyone in the field.

The book covers all aspects of maritime risk and safety from engineering and operational perspectives, as well as regulatory and health and safety requirements. It addresses the needs of both professionals and students working in the related fields of shipping management, ship design and naval architecture and transport management, as well as fields including safety management, insurance and accident investigation.

* A high profile subject of great international concern
* The only text to deal with safety management of marine transport in detail
* Covers internationally agreed standards and requirements

Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health

Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health Review

Created for those who have little experience with statistics, or for those who need to keep a concise reference book at hand, this newly updated handbook provides an introductory guide to basic statistics and data analysis.

Using step-by-step methods and both examples and applications common to safety professionals, including loss control consultants and occupational health nurses, this new edition makes understanding the "math" side of the job easier. Readers will learn how to apply appropriate statistical procedures to commonly encountered situations, how to perform each statistical test, how to executive inferential statistics for parametric and non-parametric procedures, and how to use descriptive statistical concepts to summarize data.

The author ends each chapter with a chapter summary and review exercises. He also includes extensive illustrations, easy-to-read charts and tables, a glossary of statistical terms, a comprehensive index, solutions to sample problems, and five appendices containing statistical tables with their appropriate uses.

Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety

Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety Review

Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003, the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive period of work to 30 hours in order to protect patients and residents from unsafe conditions resulting from excessive fatigue. "Resident Duty Hours" provides a timely examination of how those requirements were implemented and their impact on safety, education, and the training institutions. An in-depth review of the evidence on sleep and human performance indicated a need to increase opportunities for sleep during residency training to prevent acute and chronic sleep deprivation and minimize the risk of fatigue-related errors. In addition to recommending opportunities for on-duty sleep during long duty periods and breaks for sleep of appropriate lengths between work periods, the committee also recommends enhancements of supervision, appropriate workload, and changes in the work environment to improve conditions for safety and learning. All residents, medical educators, those involved with academic training institutions, specialty societies, professional groups, and consumer/patient safety organizations will find this book useful to advocate for an improved culture of safety.

Stairways and Ladders

Stairways and Ladders Review

Working on and around stairways and ladders is hazardous. Stairways and ladders are major sources of injuries and fatalities among construction
workers for example, and many of the injuries are serious enough to require time off the job. OSHA rules apply to all stairways and ladders used in construction, alteration, repair, painting, decorating and demolition of worksites covered by
OSHA’s construction safety and health standards.

Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach

Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach Review

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors perspective, Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach delineates a method that can enlighten and clarify this discourse as well as put us on a better path to correcting the issues.

People often think, understandably, that safety lies mainly in the hands through which care ultimately flows to the patient—those who are closest to the patient, whose decisions can mean the difference between life and death, between health and morbidity. The human factors approach refuses to lay the responsibility for safety and risk solely at the feet of people at the sharp end. That is where we should intervene to make things safer, to tighten practice, to focus attention, to remind people to be careful, to impose rules and guidelines. The book defines an approach that looks relentlessly for sources of safety and risk everywhere in the system—the designs of devices; the teamwork and coordination between different practitioners; their communication across hierarchical and gender boundaries; the cognitive processes of individuals; the organization that surrounds, constrains, and empowers them; the economic and human resources offered; the technology available; the political landscape; and even the culture of the place.

The breadth of the human factors approach is itself testimony to the realization that there are no easy answers or silver bullets for resolving the issues in patient safety. A user-friendly introduction to the approach, this book takes the complexity of health care seriously and doesn’t over simplify the problem. It demonstrates what the approach does do, that is offer the substance and guidance to consider the issues in all their nuance and complexity.

Fundamental Principles of Occupational Health and Safety

Fundamental Principles of Occupational Health and Safety Review

This is a practical guidebook for developing effective occupational health and safety (OHS) policies and programs. It focuses on the key topics essential to promoting and managing national and enterprise OHS systems. It presents a concise overview of the issues involved, together with specific guidelines for policy design, implementation, and management at both national and enterprise levels. The operational aspects of meeting health and safety requirements are also covered, with detailed sections on legislation and enforcement, occupational health surveillance, and preventive and protective measures, as well as health education and training. The second edition covers new areas such as the recent ILO standard on the promotion of OSH, HIV/AIDS and the world of work, occupational safety and health management systems, and new chemical safety information tools.

Essentials of Public Health Law and Policy

Essentials of Public Health Law and Policy Review

As one of the newest offerings in the Jones and Bartlett Essential Public Health series, Essentials of Health Policy and Law provides students of public health with a firm foundation of the basics of American health policy and law. Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the health of all Americans, the aim of this book is to help readers understand the broad context of health policy and law, the essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the health care and public health systems, and the way health policies and laws are formulated. Think of this textbook as an extended manual introductory, concise, and straightforward to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, and thus as a jumping off point for discussion, reflection, research, and analysis.

Pocket Guide to Safety Essentials

Pocket Guide to Safety Essentials Review

This book is meant to provide a convenient source of information in an easy format. It contains the more pertinent safety information and concepts, not delving into the theoretical, but staying solidly in the practical. It fits easily in a briefcase, satchel or backpack so that it may be transported to an injury site, class or jobsite.

Sections of this book are devoted to helpful Internet Web sites, chemistry, ergonomics, OSHA requirements, mechanical principles, industrial hygiene and several other subject areas.