Delivering Safety Excellence
Discover how to overcome a culture of inadequately addressing risk and thereby achieve safe working practices from a leader in the field
Delivering Safety Excellence: Engagement Culture At Every Level provides an in-depth and practical overview of how to energize frontline employees, supervisors, managers, and leaders to overcome and solve regularly occurring safety concerns. The book teaches readers how to resolve dysfunctional safety cultures by engaging employees at all levels. This cross functional engagement culture regularly builds safe and effective working practices that eliminate regulatory, financial, and personal risk shortfalls while encouraging profitability and efficiency.
The distinguished author shows how culture improvement processes and models can be utilized to improve the performance all across an organization. The material is presented in dialogue format using case studies to highlight the relationship between the concepts discussed and their application in the real world.
You’ll discover how to implement real solutions in industries of all types and in organizations of all sizes using practical and concrete strategies tested by the author in regions and varying cultures around the world. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:*A thorough introduction to rapidly resolving the many common deficiencies in safety culture, including scarce regulatory and cultural materials and a lack of support, trust, and credibility for safety officers*Practical discussions of how urgency can obstruct a consistent culture of safety, performance, and prudence*Explorations of behavior-based safety, the injury plateau, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and a dynamic model of safety weaknesses that lead to injuries
Perfect for safety officers at all levels of organizations of any size, Delivering Safety Excellence: Engagement Culture At Every Level will also earn a place in the libraries of executives, managers, leaders, supervisors, and employees who seek a one-stop reference for how to build a safe and profitable company.
Michael M Williamsen, PhD, has worked as a turnaround specialist with a number of small, medium and large organizations throughout the world that were in trouble in one or more of their functionalities. Dr. Williamsen started and led a global consulting business of culture change excellence that was subsequently purchased and used globally by a global fortune 50 manufacturer. Dr. Williamsen has been published in the Journal of Safety Professionals and has published 250+ short blog articles which were edited and approved by the parent organizations. For more than a decade Dr. Williamsen has been a featured speaker at the annual American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) safety conference, regional safety society conferences, the ASSP Middle East Chapter safety conferences and any number of other company and industry conferences.
