2nd Edition

Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences Theory, Methods, and Tools in Safety Management, Second Edition

By Urban Kjellen, Eirik Albrechtsen Copyright 2017

    This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to improve risk assessments, investigations, and organizational learning inside companies in order to prevent unwanted occurrences. The book helps the reader in analyzing the subject from different scientific perspectives to demonstrate how they contribute to an overall understanding. It also gives a comprehensive overview of different methods and tools for use in safety practice and helps the reader in analyzing their scope, merits, and shortcomings. The book raises a number of critical issues to be addressed in the improvement process.

    Section I: Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introducing some basic concepts

    Chapter 2 Framework conditions

    Chapter 3 Case study

    Section II: Theoretical foundation

    Chapter 4 Accident theory and models

    Chapter 5 Framework for accident analysis

    Chapter 6 The occurrence of accidents over time

    Chapter 7 Management of safety through experience feedback

    Chapter 8 Criteria for assessing the efficiency of experience feedback

    Chapter 9 Barriers against loss

    Chapter 10 The human element in accident control

    Section III: Learning from incidents and deviations

    Chapter 11 Sources of data on accident risks

    Chapter 12 Hazard identification, safety inspections and audits

    Chapter 13 Incident reporting and investigation

    Chapter 14 Accumulated incident experience

    Section IV: Monitoring of safety performance

    Chapter 15 Overview of safety performance indicators

    Chapter 16 Loss-based safety performance indicators

    Chapter 17 Process-based safety performance indicators

    Chapter 18 Causal factor–based safety performance indicators

    Chapter 19 Selecting safety performance indicators

    Section V: Risk assessment

    Chapter 20 The risk assessment process

    Chapter 21 Coarse analysis

    Chapter 22 Job safety analysis

    Chapter 23 Risk assessments of machinery

    Chapter 24 Comparison risk assessment

    Section VI: Putting the pieces together

    Chapter 25 The oil and gas industry

    Chapter 26 The hydropower industry

    Chapter 27 Work-related road transportation

    Chapter 28 Epilogue

    Appendix A: Definitions

    Appendix B: SMORT checklists and questionnaire

    Bibliography

    Biography

    Urban Kjellen, Eirik Albrechtsen