Safety is broken. The people who are responsible for helping you stay safe should be at the top of your Christmas card list, but all too often they are despised, ridiculed and ignored.
But safety management is beginning to be challenged. Businesses have begun to realise that what they have been doing is no longer providing any additional value.
The same issues are repeatedly raised by corporate leadership:
- How do we get our workforce engaged in safety?
- How do we improve safety systems to gain commitment from all employees?
- How do we improve safety understanding to make the case for change?
- How do we embed safety as an integral part of culture in an environment of ongoing change and cost pressure?
Challenging the Safety Quo makes the case for change based on stagnating performance, identifies areas where there are problems and proposes alternative ways to progress. Provocative but practical, it outlines the business benefits to be gained from putting in place the right approaches to managing safety, although not in the way traditionally presented by most safety managers.
This book translates theory into practice; putting an accessible, practical and usable spin on cutting-edge thinking in safety.
Part 1 Introduction
1 The Problem
2 The Cast List
3 The Maturity Relevance
4 The Paradigm Shift
Part 1 Summary
Part 2 Truths, Half-truths and Downright Myths
5 The Triangular Fallacy
6 The Priority Confusion
7 The Benefit Façade
8 The Number Crunch
9 The Measurement Folly
10 The Communication Gap
11 The Zero Paradox
12 The Worker Implication
13 The Safety Separation
14 The Systemectomy
15 The Miscellany
Part 2 Summary
Part 3 Your Context
16 The Bespoke Approach
17 The Leadership Bus
18 The Leadership Attribution
19 The Culture Cascade
20 The System Alignment
21 The People Postulation
22 The Future Evolution
23 The Highlights
24 The Resistance
Appendices
Index
Biography
Craig Marriott is a senior safety professional with over 25 years’ experience managing safety in high-hazard industries. From nuclear submarines and highly radioactive waste, to high-pressure gas pipelines and oil rigs, he has written safety cases and managed safety for some of the world’s most hazardous operations.Craig specializes in providing safety leadership advice to organisations across the world and has worked with companies in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
'Craig provides a refreshing perspective, moving past the bluster and pointing toward a more productive future for safety management. His approach challenges old assumptions, but in a practical way that gives us a way forward.' — Ron Gantt, Vice President, SCM
'Rating: 5 out of 5. Overall, I haven’t been disappointed....it will be money well spent if you want to be a leader - at whatever level you find yourself in the safety world - because it could help you change how everyone thinks about safety.' — Richard Byrne, CMIOSH, IOSH Magazine
