1st Edition
Reducing Serious Injuries and Fatalities with Evidence-Based Safety
Part 1: Setting the Scene. 1. Evidence-based safety. 2. Safety Metrics. 3. A Culture of Safety. Part 2: Evidence-Based Methods & Practices. 4. Strategy. 5. Risk Assessment. 6. Productivity v Safety. 7. Just Culture. 8. Effective Leadership. 9. Procedural Compliance. 10. Safety Communications. 11. Safety Training and Competence. 12. Lessons Learned. 13. Corrective & Preventive Actions. Part 3. Contemporary Safety Theories. 14. Behavior-Based Safety. 15. Psychological Safety. 16. Human and Organizational Factors. 17. Complexity Science. 18. Complexity Based Accident Theories. Part 4: Conclusions. 19. Bringing it all together. 20. SIF prevention process. 21. Addendum- calculating Lambda (λ).
Biography
Dom Cooper is a past Professor of Safety Education and Adjunct Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. An award-winning author, Dr. Cooper started his career in the British military with the Royal Engineers and became an advanced scaffolder on demobilization. Awarded a PhD from The University of Manchester, he helped pioneer the use of behavioral safety in the UK construction industry. His 35-year OSH career has taken him to work in Indonesia, UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Niger, as well as posts in the Andes and on North Sea drilling platforms. His experiences have given him the ability to empathize and interact with the entire workforce, from shop floor to top-tier management, across 25 industries, to help entities achieve world class safety results and verify safety science.
