Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments A Leadership Perspective Sustainable Improvements in Environment Safety and Health Series
Auteur : L. Caldwell Cindy
This book provides leaders in high risk industries a better understanding of how their values and behaviors can influence the organization's safety culture and improve its capacity to bounce back from failure. Examples are illustrated through case studies and practical tools are provided to evaluate and improve an organization's culture by improving leadership capability. This unique book integrates the areas of safety culture and high reliability from the perspective of leadership in a work team environment. Readers of the book will get a fresh perspective on safety culture and reliability that can be translated into practical steps for improving their organization through its leadership.
Preface
Author
Section I
Chapter 1 Understanding Organizational Factors in High-Risk Environments
Chapter 2 Review of the Literature
Chapter 3 Case Study Exploring Leadership, Work Team Engagement, and Safety Performance in a High-Risk Work Environment
Section II
Chapter 4 Creating the Capacity for Organizational Resilience
Chapter 5 Toolkit for Assessing and Monitoring Leadership and Safety Culture
References
Appendix: Example Assessment of Leadership and Safety Culture at a Chemical Facility
Index
Cindy L. Caldwell is currently a senior technical advisor for Environmental, Health, and Safety at a DOE National Laboratory. Her work includes understanding and evaluating operational culture, organizational reliability and risk management. Ms. Caldwell is certified by the American Board of Health Physics, has a BS in Bacteriology, an MS in Radiological Science and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems.
Date de parution : 09-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 09-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments :
Mots-clés :
Safety Culture; Psychological Safety; High Risk Work Environments; Hazardous Processes; Accident Causation Theory; Human Error; High Risk Work; Change Management; Organizational Resilience; Safety Climate; Safety Culture Research; Resilience; BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Cindy L; Caldwell; Normal Accident Theory; HROs; High Reliability Theory; Deepwater Horizon; Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station; Strong Safety Culture; Retrospective Case Studies; High Risk Hazards; Work Team Members; BP Texas City Refinery; High Reliability Organization Theory; Transformational Leadership Behaviors; Improving Safety Culture; Business Processes; Mutual Engagement; Mixed Method Concurrent Triangulation; Assessment Team Members