Total Safety and the Productivity Challenge

Adopting a strategic approach to risk management can maximize competitiveness and profitability. Total Safety and Productivity approaches offer managers a set of methods and tools to apply a Total Safety Management (TSM) philosophy to achieve this. The capability to anticipate, assess and plan for risks associated with future operations is a critical success factor, for enterprises of all types and sizes. The ability to risk assess actual operations with an easy to apply, resilient methodology can offer significant benefits in terms of the capacity to improve safety and performance.

This book describes approaches that can be used alone or jointly to improve safety management in any organization. The methods are based on academic best practice and have been developed by leading experts, but are presented here in a practical way for application in industry by non-experts. The book outlines a professional approach to risk and safety management, which requires goal setting, planning and the measurement of performance, and encourages a safety management system that is woven holistically into the fabric of an organization so that it becomes part of the culture, the way people do their jobs, and helps ensure that issues are correctly prioritized and managed as they emerge.

This book is essential reading for professionals, at both expert and non-expert level, who are interested in applying the TSM philosophy within their organization.

Maria Chiara Leva is a lecturer in Human Factors and Industrial Safety at the Technical University Dublin. She is a visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Innovative Human Systems at Trinity College Dublin, and is also the co-founder of a campus company called Tosca Solutions.

Tom Kontogiannis is a professor in Human Factors and Industrial Safety at the Technical University of Crete. Since 1997, he has headed the Cognitive Ergonomics and Industrial Safety (CEIS) Lab at the Technical University of Crete.

Marko Gerbec is an application research counsellor in the Department for Inorganic Chemistry and Technology, as well as an associate professor at Jozef Stefan's International Postgraduate School.

Olga Aneziris is a head of research at the Laboratory of Systems Reliability and Industrial Safety, at the National Centre for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", and the project manager of various EU funded projects (e.g. INTEGRISK, TOSCA, SUPER-LNG).