Front Cover -- Dedication -- Safety Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Laying the Foundation1 -- Chapter 1 - The Perception of Safety -- Introduction -- Defining Safety -- The Perception of Safety -- Changing the Perception -- How Are You Perceived? -- Personal Branding -- What Is Your Mental Model? -- Safety-A Multi-Disciplinary Profession -- Safety at a Crossroads -- Safety Is an Espoused Value -- Do You Speak the Same Language? -- From Startup to Status Quo -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 - Analyzing the Organizational Culture -- Introduction -- What Is Organizational Culture? -- Three Levels of Culture Defined -- Safety Culture Defined -- Assessing the Current Safety Culture -- Habits as Part of the Culture -- Possible Characteristics of a Culture -- National and Occupational Cultures -- Safety Culture as a Mission-Essential Business Priority -- Can You Change a Culture? -- Nine Warning Flag Factors That Defeat Control -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 - Analyzing and Using Your Network -- Introduction -- The Importance of Networking -- Analyzing the Organizational Chart to Assess Your Network -- Defining the Organizational Network -- Reality Check Indicator -- Defining the Basics of Networking Theory -- Changing Reality versus Perception -- Social Networking Analysis -- Social Network Mapping -- Defining the Roles Identified by the Network Map -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 - Setting the Direction for the Safety Culture -- Introduction -- Charting Your Course-The Planning Process -- n Lesson Learned # 1 -- Vision/Mission, a Major Trait of Leadership -- Organizational Scope Drift -- Personal Scope Drift -- The Safety Policy Statement.

Communicating Your Safety Policy Statement -- Communicate by Action -- Aligning the Organization -- Defining Goals and Objectives -- Defining Goals That Improve the Safety Management System -- Defining Objectives -- Writing Your Objectives -- Communicating Your Goals and Objectives -- Reviewing Your Objectives -- Resistance to Goals and Objectives -- The Plan -- The Critical Part of Planning -- Communicate Your Plan -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Safety Management Systems Defined91 -- Chapter 5 - Overview of Basic Safety Management Systems -- Introduction -- The Common Link between Safety Management Systems -- Management Leadership -- Employee Involvement -- Defining Roles and Responsibilities -- Hazard and Risk Assessment Identification and Analysis -- Hazard Prevention and Control -- Information and Training -- Training Programs -- Evaluation of Program Effectiveness -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 - Selecting Your Process -- Introduction -- What Do All Safety Management Systems Have in Common? -- The PDCA Cycle -- Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control -- Benefits of Using a Standardized Safety Management System -- Pros and Cons of a Standardized Safety Management System -- Government- and Voluntary-Related Safety Management Systems -- Program Evaluation Profile -- Examples of Advanced Safety Management Systems -- Refer to Figure 6.5 for an "Overview of the ANSI Z10-2012 OHSMS Process". This diagram provides a view of the interrelationships... -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 - Leadership and the Effective Safety Culture -- Introduction -- Leadership Defined -- Leadership Impact on the Safety Management System -- Leadership and Organization Structure -- Leadership Expectations -- Establishing Organizational Priorities.

Management by Walking Around -- You Are Directly Responsible for Establishing Purpose -- Open Door Policy -- Defining Roles, Responsibility, Delegation, Authority, and Accountability -- Review Your Organization to Determine Safety-Related Tasks for Each Role -- The Value of Developing and Implementing Written Job Descriptions -- Writing the Basic Job Description -- Defining Clear Goals and Assigning Responsibilities -- Get in Agreement on Objectives -- Writing Your Objectives for Each Job Position -- Nonsupervisory Employees -- Review Assigned Activities Regularly -- Elements of Delegation -- Relationship between Responsibility, Authority, and Accountability -- Assigning Authority -- Defining Accountability -- Assigning Specific Responsibilities -- The Leadership Team -- Managers -- Supervisors -- Employees -- Establish Consequences for Performance -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 - Getting Your Employees Involved in the Safety Management System -- Introduction -- Reasons Employees Are Not Involved in the Safety Process -- Why Should All Employees Be Involved? -- Listen to Your Employees -- Getting Employees Involved in the Safety Process -- Guidelines for Employee Involvement -- "Just Ask" Your Employees to Get Involved -- Simple Beginnings Can Generate Major Impact -- Safety Committees -- Establishing the Team Charter -- Choosing Your Safety Committee Members -- The Central Safety Committee -- Permanent Subcommittees -- Publicity Committee -- Inspections and Walk-Throughs -- Loss-Producing Incident Reports -- Job Hazard Analysis -- Rules and Procedures -- Education and Training -- Follow-up Team -- Ad-hoc Committees -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Part 3: How to Handle the Perception of Risk175 -- Chapter 9 - Risk Perception-Defining How to Identify Personal Responsibility -- Introduction.

Why Do We Take Unnecessary Risk? -- Shifting the Thought Process to Risk -- Building the Foundation for Risk Perception -- Hazard Recognition Tools -- Risk Assessment Tool Defined -- Changing Perceptions -- Meeting and Getting to Sustainability -- Implementing the Risk Assessment Tool -- Hazard and Risk Defined -- Why Are Risk Analysis and Risk Reduction Important? -- Personal Risk Tolerance-How Do We Decide What Is a Risk? -- The Risk Assessment Tool Process-The Risk Guidance Card -- Risk Scoring -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 - Risk Management Principles -- Introduction -- What Is Risk? -- Confusion over Definitions of Risk -- Obstacles to Risk Management -- Risk Assessment -- Acceptable Risk -- Management of Risk -- Consider a Risk Spectrum -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 - Developing an Activity-Based Safety System -- Introduction -- Activity-Based Safety System -- Advantage of Using ABSS -- How ABSS Works -- Safety Meetings -- Daily Preshift Review -- Multishift Operation -- Weekly Meetings -- Monthly Meetings -- One-on-One Discussions with Employees -- Safety Walk-through Tour -- Machine/Equipment-Specific Checklist -- Follow-up Team -- ABSS Roles and Responsibilities Defined -- Supervisor/Superintendent -- Middle Management -- Upper Management -- Senior Management -- Site Safety Professionals -- Measuring the Success of ABSS -- Basic Tips for Using ABSS -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 - Developing the Job Hazard Analysis -- Introduction -- Beginning the Job Hazard Analysis Process -- Why Is a JHA Important? -- Benefits of Developing JHAs -- Drawbacks of the JHA -- Why Is It Important to Get Employees Involved in the Process? -- Selecting a Team -- Building the Case for a JHA Process -- Selecting the Jobs for Analysis -- Summary.

Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Part 4: Tools to Enhance Your Safety Management System249 -- Chapter 13 - Education and Training-Assessing Safety Training Needs -- Introduction -- Education and Safety Performance -- Conducting Education and Training Needs Assessment -- Understand the Direction of Training -- The Concepts of Education and Safety Training -- Course Development Process -- Developing Learning Activities -- Performance Deficiency -- Establishing Learning Objectives -- Guidelines for Writing Learning Objectives -- Target Audience -- Conducting Site-Specific Education and Training -- Communication -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14 - Assessing Your Safety Management System -- Introduction -- Planning for Your Safety Management System Assessment -- Avoiding a "Blame the System" Mentality -- Types of Safety Management Assessments -- Selecting the Assessment Team -- Preassessment Activities -- Opening Meeting -- Safety Management Safety System Assessment Activities -- Initial Location Tour -- Document Reviews -- Leadership and Employee Interviews -- Communication and Feedback -- Review of Site Conditions -- Presenting Results of the Safety Management System Assessment -- Developing the Action Plan -- Communicating the Assessment and the Action Plans -- Example Assessment and Action Plan -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15 - Becoming a Curator for the Safety Management System -- Introduction -- The Importance of Becoming an Information Curator -- Function of a Safety Management System -- Researching and Curating Information -- New Concepts for Organizing Information -- Managing Safety Management System Data -- Step 1-Evaluate Your Data Needs -- Step 2-Establish a Plan -- Technology and the Safety Management System -- Summary -- Chapter Review Questions.

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