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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101138300462

ISBN-139781138300460

eBay Product ID (ePID)240298761

Product Key Features

Number of Pages220 Pages

Publication NameSafety Anarchist : Relying on Human Expertise and Innovation, Reducing Bureaucracy and Compliance

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectIndustrial Health & Safety, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Psychology

AuthorSidney Dekker

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight27.1 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-020759

Reviews'Having been a safety professional for 28 years I am absolutely appalled at this mans attitude towards the safety profession. My work colleagues and I could not believe it when he referred to health and safety professionals as Safety Nazis and HR as Human Remains. Does this man honestly believe that 250 years after the industrial revolution safety professionals have made little or no difference to reducing the risk of injury in workplaceswhat a disgrace!! And then he goes on to say that if a worker gets killed at work he must have been a good worker, is he serious? I was absolutely gobsmacked at his comment. What a waste of money. Lets hope he never returns to our State.' 'Best work on health and safety I have ever seen. Thoroughly researched, real-life examples and common sense. Dekker avoids all the usual garbage and bureaucratese that is so counterproductive to safety, and which completely bedevils the safety profession and regulators.' Audience responses to Safety Anarchist lecture, 2016

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal658.408

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: A Case for Change Chapter 2: We know what's best for you Chapter 3: Authoritarian High Modernism Chapter 4: The safety bureaucracy Chapter 5: What gets measured, gets manipulated Chapter 6: The infantilization of us Chapter 7: A new religion Chapter 8: A non-deterministic world Chapter 9: Anarchy versus anarchism Chapter 10: Ways out References Index

SynopsisWork has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed to a crawl. Many incident- and injury rates have flatlined. Worse, excellent safety performance on low-consequence events tends to increase the risk of fatalities and disasters. Bureaucracy and compliance now seem less about managing the safety of the workers we are responsible for, and more about managing the liability of the people they work for. We make workers do a lot that does nothing to improve their success locally. Paradoxically, such tightening of safety bureaucracy robs us of exactly the source of human insight, creativity and resilience that can tell us how success is actually created, and where the next accident may well happen. It is time for Safety Anarchists: people who trust people more than process, who rely on horizontally coordinating experiences and innovations, who push back against petty rules and coercive compliance, and who help recover the dignity and expertise of human work.

LC Classification NumberT55.D42 2018