- 152 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Fearless World of Professional Safety in the 21st Century
About this book
Professional safety is in danger of extinction. Safety professionals have become complacent and unfocused, ignorantly relying on an 80-year-old paradigm. Lazy gimmicks are substituted for the hierarchy of controls meant to be the foundation of the profession. A $10, 000 investment in posters makes zero improvement in safety; a $10, 000 investment in machine guarding upgrades can save lives.
By blending philosophy, history, and psychology, The Fearless World of Professional Safety in the 21st Century is revolutionary, offering an innovative approach with creative solutions to move a safety program past the malarkey that has devalued professional safety for decades. Using humor and professional experience within a discussion of historical events and published scientific findings, Scott Gesinger explores the history of how current safety practices developed and why these must change if the profession is to survive the 21st century. He discusses new professional philosophies based on best practices in industry, historical examples, scientific research outside of safety, and proven approaches from other disciplines which can successfully guide safety professionals into the future.
Gesinger provides a book for every safety professional that is candid, plain-speaking, and eminently approachable, while at the same time provides information that is new, challenging, and engaging.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: it’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
- 1 Watch Jaws
- 2 Something has to change
- 3 Written in blood: the death of General Patton
- 4 Ergonomics: welcome to the jungle
- 5 Ptolemy, Freud, and Heinrich walked into a bar
- 6 The time I thought I killed myself with a sign post and a nitrogen cryogenic cylinder
- 7 Common sense skills / common sense kills
- 8 Everything I need to know about behavior-based safety I learned from my cats
- 9 Gemba walk this way
- 10 Safety management system title match: Deming versus Heinrich
- 11 Written in blood: Bhopal India
- 12 If you think safety is number one, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya
- 13 Identifying the organization’s many swords of Damocles
- 14 The genus python of the safety world
- 15 That funny little scar on my lip
- 16 The four personality types of safety committee members and how to engage them
- 17 Brett
- 18 $12 million says a lot
- 19 Does this make me flotsam, or jetsam?
- 20 Safety discipline needs a spanking
- 21 Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
- 22 Lift with your head
- 23 Written in blood
- 24 DAF
- 25 To serve man
- 26 Snickergate
- 27 Winston Churchill said it best
- Bibliography
- Index