Management

Preventing Accidents

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You don’t want to expose your team members to danger. Accidents are costly (measured in both human and financial terms), disruptive, and morale- destroying. If you’ve ever been involved in a serious accident yourself, or seen someone get hurt in one, you won’t have forgotten it in a hurry.
As a manager, you have a responsibility to find ways of preventing accidents, and of minimizing the risks from hazards at your place of work. The philosophy of accident prevention is, in essence, simple: identify the hazards, and then put all necessary measures in place for eradicating them, or at the least, protecting people from them. As we will discuss, most accidents at work are the result of a failure to put this philosophy into practice in an adequate manner. In other words, accidents usually occur because the health and safety management system breaks down. To put it even more plainly: the majority of accidents could be prevented, if safety were better managed within the organization.
This workbook has four sessions. In Session A, we’ll take an overview, and define what we mean by ‘accident’, ‘risk’, ‘hazard’, and so on. After looking at a number of descriptions of accidents, we will try to identify some of the causes, and the means of preventing similar accidents.
Session B examines safety from the point of view of management: costs; system strategies; legal obligations; risk assessment; people with a special role.
In Session C, we get down to practical accident prevention: analysing different types of accident, and identifying hazards common to many workplaces.
Session D is entitled ‘Coping with accidents’. It looks at the activities that must take place once an accident has occurred: emergency procedures, reporting, and investigation

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Series Title

Preventing Accidents

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Publisher

England : Institute of Leadership & Management., 2003

Collation

1-129

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0 7506 5835 5

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NONE

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Edition

4th Edition

Subject(s)

Makerting

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Statement of Responsibility

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