Challenging the Safety Quo

Craig Marriott

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Routledge
17 November 2017

Industrial relations & safety

Safety is broken. The people who are responsible for helping you stay safe should be at the top of your Christmas card list, but all too often they are despised, ridiculed and ignored.

But safety management is beginning to be challenged. Businesses have begun to realise that what they have been doing is no longer providing any additional value.

The same issues are repeatedly raised by corporate leadership:

How do we get our workforce engaged in safety?

How do we improve safety systems to gain commitment from all employees?

How do we improve safety understanding to make the case for change?

How do we embed safety as an integral part of culture in an environment of ongoing change and cost pressure?

Challenging the Safety Quo makes the case for change based on stagnating performance, identifies areas where there are problems and proposes alternative ways to progress. Provocative but practical, it outlines the business benefits to be gained from putting in place the right approaches to managing safety, although not in the way traditionally presented by most safety managers.

This book translates theory into practice; putting an accessible, practical and usable spin on cutting-edge thinking in safety.

By: Craig Marriott
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138558762
ISBN 10: 1138558761
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 17 November 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1 Introduction 1 The Problem 2 The Cast List 3 The Maturity Relevance 4 The Paradigm Shift Part 1 Summary Part 2 Truths, Half-truths and Downright Myths 5 The Triangular Fallacy 6 The Priority Confusion 7 The Benefit Façade 8 The Number Crunch 9 The Measurement Folly 10 The Communication Gap 11 The Zero Paradox 12 The Worker Implication 13 The Safety Separation 14 The Systemectomy 15 The Miscellany Part 2 Summary Part 3 Your Context 16 The Bespoke Approach 17 The Leadership Bus 18 The Leadership Attribution 19 The Culture Cascade 20 The System Alignment 21 The People Postulation 22 The Future Evolution 23 The Highlights 24 The Resistance Appendices Index

Craig Marriott is a senior safety professional with over 25 years’ experience managing safety in high-hazard industries. From nuclear submarines and highly radioactive waste, to high-pressure gas pipelines and oil rigs, he has written safety cases and managed safety for some of the world’s most hazardous operations.Craig specializes in providing safety leadership advice to organisations across the world and has worked with companies in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Reviews for Challenging the Safety Quo

'Craig provides a refreshing perspective, moving past the bluster and pointing toward a more productive future for safety management. His approach challenges old assumptions, but in a practical way that gives us a way forward.' - Ron Gantt, Vice President, SCM 'Rating: 5 out of 5. Overall, I haven't been disappointed....it will be money well spent if you want to be a leader - at whatever level you find yourself in the safety world - because it could help you change how everyone thinks about safety.' - Richard Byrne, CMIOSH, IOSH Magazine