Quality, Safety, and Environment

Synergy in the 21st Century

Pascal Dennis

• Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN: 9780873893794
• eBook ISBN: 9780873898737
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Business

For the first time, an author has demonstrated that safety and environment are influential factors within the quality arena. Pascal Dennis explains how applying quality management principles to safety and environmental issues can result in growth for an organization where safety and environment endeavors are concerned. This is the only book demonstrating that problems stemming from quality, safety and environment share the same root cause and respond to the identical remedies offered by a modern quality management system. Extremely well-written, Quality, Safety, and Environment: Synergy in the 21st Century includes chapters focusing on the histroy of the quality revolution, behavior-based safety, and the vital issues facing today's safety manager. The goals, methods, and principles of total safety and environmental management are introduced as well as statistical process control and other quality tools made applicable to safety and environmental situations. Benefits Increase profits by integrating your organization's management systems. Apply cutting-edge technologies in environmental management. Administer proven methods of measuring environmental performance. Contents: Introduction Entropy--The QSE link Generic Management Systems--A Primer Quality Management Systems Safety Management Systems Environmental Management Systems Q, S, and E Management Systems--Synergies Implications for Management Includes 32 illustrations

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction
• CHAPTER 2 Profile of a Problem Company
• CHAPTER 3 The Quality Revolution
• CHAPTER 4 The Crisis in Safety Management
• CHAPTER 5 Environmentalism—The First Wave Runs Out of Gas
• CHAPTER 6 Systems
• CHAPTER 7 Total Safety and Environmental Management
• CHAPTER 8 Behavior Observation—The Key to Upstream Measurement in Safety
• CHAPTER 9 Measurement of Safety Performance
• CHAPTER 10 Measurement of Environmental Performance
• CHAPTER 11 The Total Safety and Environmental Management System
• CHAPTER 12 Dimensions of Synergy
• Index