Working Safe - How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition

List of contents

ORIENTATION AND ALIGNMENT. Choosing the Right Approach. Starting with Theory. Shifting Paradigms. HUMAN BARRIERS TO SAFETY. The Complexity of People. Sensation, Perception, and Perceived Risk. Stress vs Distress. BEHAVIOR-BASED PSYCHOLOGY. Basic Principles. Identifying Critical Behaviors. Behavioral Safety Analysis. BEHAVIOR-BASED INTERVENTION. Intervening with Activators. Intervening with Consequences. Intervening as a Behavior-Change Agent. Intervening with Supportive Conversation. ACTIVELY CARING FOR SAFETY. Understanding Actively Caring. The Person-Based Approach to Actively Caring. Increasing Actively Caring Behaviors. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. Promoting High-Performance Teamwork. Evaluating for Continuous Improvement. Obtaining and Maintaining Involvement. Reviewing the Principles.

About the author

E. Scott Geller

Summary

Takes a step-by-step, proactive look at how to use behavior-based psychology to improve health and safety. Packed with illustrations, charts and graphs, this book provides principles and procedures for increasing the quality and quantity of individual and community caring behavior to achieve a 'Total Safety Culture'.

Additional text

"Dr. Geller teaches us that safety is really in our own hands for ourselves and those around us."
-Morris E. Chafetz, MD, 1995 Inductee into the Health and Safety Hall of Fame International

"This book is absolutely extraordinary. It is extremely well written, accurate, and factual. I highly recommend it for both the safety professional and the general business community."
-John G. Cope, Ph.D., Professor, East Carolina University

Product details

• Authors: E. Scott Geller, E. Scott (Virginia Tech Geller, Geller E. Scott
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138430945
• ISBN: 978-1-138-43094-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Psychiatry, environmental science, engineering & technology, Engineering: general, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Ergonomics