Challenging the Safety Quo

by Craig Marriott

Safety is broken. The people who are responsible for helping you stay safe should be at the top of your Christmas card list, but all too often they are despised, ridiculed and ignored. But safety management is beginning to be challenged. Businesses have begun to realise that what they have been doing is no longer providing any additional value. The same issues are repeatedly raised by corporate Challenging the Safety Quo makes the case for change based on stagnating performance, identifies areas where there are problems and proposes alternative ways to progress. Provocative but practical, it outlines the business benefits to be gained from putting in place the right approaches to managing safety, although not in the way traditionally presented by most safety managers. This book translates theory into practice; putting an accessible, practical and usable spin on cutting-edge thinking in safety.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 2017

Reviews

[Dom Mooney]

This was a work related read. As a safety professional it contains pure heresy.

Actually, it approaches a lot of the concepts used to make workplaces safe - such as the Heinrich triangle, Safety First Policies, measuring lost time rates - and examines them with an open and critical mind. It will make you think twice about why you do things and help bring refreshed thinking and some new impetus.

Approachable for non-safety professionals too, this would be a good toolkit for a senior manager who wanted to read around the topic. It's written in concise, thoughtful and challenging pieces.

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