Human safety and risk management
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Human safety and risk management
Chapman & Hall, 1995
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  Iwate
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  Hiroshima
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-378) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a detailed analysis of the behavioural, psychological and human dimensions of health and safety in the workplace. "The Human Side of Safety" offers clear practical advice on the way safety relates to the behaviour of individuals, groups and whole organizations. It is based on rigorous theoretical perspectives and emprirical findings and uses significant real life examples and cases. This book should be of interest to safety officers, occupational psychologists, human resource managers and general managers with a responsibility for safety or participating on a safety course; trainers, lecturers, senior students specifically studying health and safety, general management, business, HRM, personnel, organizational behaviour, psychology, engineering, environmental health and nursing studies.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: audience and structure
- training strategy for safe performance. Part 2 Individual factors: motivating and rewarding safe behaviour
- attitudes, behaviour and attitude change
- perception and risk perception
- personality, work and accidents. Part 3 The work environment: groups and teams
- stress, stress management and psychological health
- human error and human factors. Part 4 Directions for action: managing human risks
- directions for action.
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