Publisher's Synopsis
A core or supplemental text for courses in Health and Safety Management, Occupational Safety, Safety Management, and Safety in the Work Place.
State-of-the-art in perspective, this text introduces the unique concept of TSM - Total Safety Management - for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment that, in turn, can become a key element in an organization's formula for competitiveness. Using a step-by-step approach - with examples and case studies throughout - it provides a practical, how-to handbook that can be used as an annotated model for implementing TSM in any organization. It shows not only how organizations can create a work environment that is both safe and conducive to peak performance, but how a safe work environment becomes part of everybody's responsibility for creating and maintaining a strategy that will give an organization a sustainable competitive advantage.
