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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stewart, J. M

Titel

Managing for world class safety

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication".
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.
• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Model of Safety Management -- 2.1 The Framework of the Model, 6 -- 2.2 Designing the Model for Measurement, 9 -- 2.3 The Beliefs and Practices for Excellence in Safety, 12 -- 2.4 The Cost-Benefit Trade-Off, 17 -- 2.5 Limitations of the Model, 24 -- 3. The Safety Questionnaire -- 3.1 Backgroup to the Development of the Questionnaire, 27 -- 3.2 Scope of the Questionnaire, 30 -- 4. Selection of Companies for Research -- 4.1 Size of Company, 35 -- 4.2 Difficulties in Identifying Companies with Excellent -- Safety, 36 -- 4.3 Canadian Companies, 37 -- 4.4 US Companies, 38 -- 4.5 Offshore Companies, 38 -- 4.6 Companies with Very Poor Safety, 39 -- 4.7 Company Environment-Culture, 40 -- 5. Research Methodology -- 5.1 Outline of Research, 41 -- 5.2 Collection of Company Data-Very Safe Companies, 44 -- 5.3 Questionnaire Survey Procedures, 47 -- 5.4 Interviews and Focus Groups, 54 -- 5.5 Summary of Companies and Research Undertaken, 57 -- 6. Analysis of the Questionnaire Results -- Questions 1 and 2: The Priority Given to Safety, 62 -- Question 3: The Belief That All Injuries Can Be Prevented, 69 -- Questions 4 and 5: The Interaction Between Business and -- Safety, 73 -- Question 6: The Extent to which Safety Is Built In, 79 -- Question 7: The Presence and Influence of Safety Values, 81 -- Question 8: Line Management Responsibility- -- Accountability for Safety, 85 -- Questions 9 and 10: Involvement in Safety Activities and -- Empowerment, 89 -- Question 11: Safety Training, 96 -- Question 12: The Frequency and Quality of Safety -- Meetings, 98 -- Question 13: Safety Rules, 102 -- Question 14: Enforcement of Safety Rules, 105 -- Question 15: Injury and Incident Investigation, 107 -- Question 16: Workplace Audits/Inspections, 110 -- Question 17: Modified Duty and Return-to-Work Systems, 114 -- Question 18: Off-the-Job Safety, 117 -- Question 19: Recognition for Safety Performance, 119 -- Question 20: Employing the Best Safety Technology, 120 -- Question 21: Measuring and Benchmarking Safety -- Performance, 122 -- Question 22: The Safety Organization, 124 -- Question 23: The Safety Department-Safety Specialists, 126 -- Question 24: Satisfaction with the Safety Performance of -- the Organization, 127 -- Beliefs and Practices for Which No Questions Were -- Developed, 129 -- 7. The Safety Management Approaches of Five Very Safe -- Companies 131 -- 7.1 Abitibi-Consolidated, Fort Frances Mill: Safety Excellence in -- Pulp and Paper Production, 132 -- 7.2 DuPont Canada: One of the World's Safest Companies, 142 -- 7.3 Milliken and Company: World Class Safety in the Textile -- Industry, 152 -- 7.4 S&C Electric Canada: A Turnaround to Safety Excellence in -- the Electrical Equipment Industry, 163 -- 7.5 Shell Canada: World Class Safety in the Oil Industry, 173 -- 8. Conclusions-How Companies Achieve Excellence in Safety 183 -- The Commitment of Management to Excellence in Safety, 183 -- Line Management Ownership of the Safety Agenda, 185 -- Involvement in Safety Activities, Training, and -- Empowerment, 186 -- Comprehensive Safety Practices, 186 -- Safety Organization and Safety Specialists, 187 -- Satisfaction with Safety Performance, 187 -- Validity of the Model and the Questionnaire, 188 -- 9. Applying the Results of the Research 189 -- Application of the Safety Survey, 190 -- Combining the Safety Survey with Future State Visioning- -- The Future State Visioning Workshop, 194 -- Action from the Survey and Workshop Results, 197 -- Where the Safety Improvement Process has been Used, 197 -- Future Use of the Safety Improvement Process, 198 -- Appendices -- A References and End-Notes, 199 -- B Nomenclature, 202 -- C Questions for Interviews of Company Leaders, 204 -- D Statistical Analysis of Data, 210 -- E The Safety Questionnaire, 213 -- F Tables of Detailed Results, 230 -- G About the Author, 263 -- Index 265.
• Despite the extensive literature on safety, few tools have been available to help managers quantitatively assess the level of safety management and the quality of the safety practices in organizations. In his consulting practice, Dr. Jim Stewart, a former executive at DuPont, developed such a method, crafting a safety survey centering on a comprehensive questionnaire for employees at all levels, that reveals the true level of corporate commitment to safety. Managing for World Class Safety first describes the model of safety management that underpins the questionnaire and then demonstr
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