Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments

Autorentext

Cindy L. Caldwell is currently a senior technical advisor for Environmental, Health, and Safety at a DOE National Laboratory. Her work includes understanding and evaluating operational culture, organizational reliability and risk management. Ms. Caldwell is certified by the American Board of Health Physics, has a BS in Bacteriology, an MS in Radiological Science and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems.

Zusammenfassung
This book provides leaders in high risk industries a better understanding of how their values and behaviors can influence the organization's safety culture and improve its capacity to bounce back from failure.

Inhalt

Preface

Author

Section I

Chapter 1 Understanding Organizational Factors in High-Risk Environments

Chapter 2 Review of the Literature

Chapter 3 Case Study Exploring Leadership, Work Team Engagement, and Safety Performance in a High-Risk Work Environment

Section II

Chapter 4 Creating the Capacity for Organizational Resilience

Chapter 5 Toolkit for Assessing and Monitoring Leadership and Safety Culture

References

Appendix: Example Assessment of Leadership and Safety Culture at a Chemical Facility

Index