Advanced Safety Management, 3rd Edition

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

This book focuses on Z10, which is the national standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, and on serious injury and fatality prevention. Impetus for an updated version of the first edition derived from two developments.

• A revised version of Z10 was approved by the American National Standards Institute in June 2012. And comment and guidance for the revisions and extensions would be beneficial.
• While the rates for serious occupational injuries and fatalities continued to drop significantly over past decades, it is now recognized that the rates have plateaued in recent years. This author proposes that major and somewhat shocking innovations in the content and focus of occupational risk management systems will be necessary to achieve additional progress.

The principle purpose of this book continues to be providing guidance to managements, safety professionals, educators, and students on having operational risk management systems that meet the requirements of Z10 and to be informative on reducing the occurrence of accidents that result in serious injuries and fatalities.

This book is used in several university level safety degree programs. Input was sought from professors, and experienced safety professionals who use the book as a reference, on subjects that should be expanded or also addressed.

• Additional emphasis is given to the most important section in Z10—Management Leadership and Employee Involvement, with particular reference ...