Workplace Safety and Health: Assessing Current Practices and Promoting Change in the Profession

Features

• Challenges the status quo by viewing safety from a different angle
• Examines how accepted practices might be failing the safety function
• Offers new and innovative options that allow you to rethink your approach to the safety function
• Looks at safety from a micro and macro viewpoint
• Provides practical advice that can be applied immediately to any workplace

  Table of Contents

  Is There a Loss of Trust in the Workplace?
  Why Compliance?
  Value-Based Leadership in Safety
  Empowerment in Safety and Health
  Impact of Hiring and Discipline in Safety
  Don’t Be Afraid to Fail
  Rethinking Workers’ Compensation
  Creating Safety Creativity in the Workplace
  How May I Help You?
  Rethinking the Employment Relationship
  Safety Impacts Everything
  ADA and the Impact on Safety and Health
  Impact of Happiness on Safety
  Here Are Your OSHA Citations!
  Future of the Safety and Health Profession
  Appendix A: Analyzing and Briefing a Court Decision
  Appendix B: Surfing the OSHA Website
  Appendix C: Developing a Compliance Program
  Appendix D: Citation Document Taken From the OSHA Website
  Appendix E: Defenses to OSHA Alleged Violations
  Appendix F: What Is a Variance?
  Appendix G: Building an Inspection Checklist
  Appendix H: Safety Auditing
  Appendix I: Action Planning Document
  Index

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