Fred Manuele on Safety Management: A Collection from Professional Safety

Fred Manuele is a respected thought leader in safety whose many works have influenced the safety profession and inspired some of the profession s most prominent authors, leaders, speakers and educators. To highlight the significance of his work, this book presents a collection of his contributions to the profession that have appeared in Professional Safety over the years.

Topics

• Addressing serious injuries and fatalities: For decades, safety has emphasized achieving low incident rates without recognizing severity potential. Several chapters challenge this focus with the concept that reducing incident frequency does not ensure prevention of serious injuries and fatalities.
• Risk assessments: Every safety practitioner should understand that performing risk assessments is a proven method for identifying potential problems. Hazard identification and analyses and risk assessments are at the core of prevention through design.
• Prevention through design: The most effective, economical way to address hazards and risk is doing so early in the design process and taking action to reduce risks to an acceptable level.
• Acceptable risk: The practice of safety requires embracing the concept of acceptable risk as a goal.
• Occupational safety and health management systems: Employers should have processes in place for continual improvement to identify and evaluate hazards; identify and improve system deficiencies; and eliminate, reduce or control risks to an acceptable level.

Fred A. Manuele, P.E., CSP, is president of Hazards Limited, the company he formed after retiring from Marsh & McLennan where he was a managing director and manager of M&M Protection Consultants. His experience in the practice of safety spans more than a few decades. Manuele s books On the Practice of Safety and Advanced Safety Management: Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention have been adopted by several professors for undergraduate and graduate safety degree programs. Manuele was awarded the honor of Fellow by the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and was given the Distinguished Service to Safety Award by National Safety Council (NSC). He is a former board member of ASSP, NSC and Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), for which he also served as president. In 2013, Manuele was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by BCSP. In 2015, University of Central Missouri presented him with its Distinguished Service Award. In 2016, he received the President s Award from ASSP for dedication in advancing the practice of safety.