In all workplaces the health and safety of employees is closely linked with the company's profitability. Human resource strategies for improving the health and safety of people in the workplace do not necessarily cost money - in fact they usually save money. A practical book based on the authors' combined consultancy experience, Increasing

This book will give you the main steps to improve workplace safety. In this book you will learn about: - Most important guidelines - Rewarding compliance with the guidelines - Creating plans for emergencies - Creating healthy expectations - And much more! Improving workplace health and safety isn't quite as difficult as it may appear, and it may be completed much more quickly than you might anticipate. Once correct standards and guidelines are introduced in the workplace, it doesn't take long for them to become second nature to everyone who works there, resulting in excellent work.

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.

The 5th edition of this market-leading text continues to take a humanist approach, (work should satisfy human needs equally with organisational goals), and goes beyond the risk-management model of physical safety to take into account the larger perspective of human health needs, including psychological and social needs. Our author team which includes industry experts, academics and trainers provides insight into the most recent legislation. Covers core and elective units of competency from the current qualifications: ' BSB41412 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety and ' BSB51312 Diploma of Work Health and Safety

WHS: A Management Guide is a digital-only resource that looks beyond the current understanding of work health and safety to understand how workplaces can be shaped to fit human needs. It caters to future WHS managers while also providing a practical introduction to WHS for all students. Taking a humanist approach to WHS, the content goes beyond the risk-management model of physical safety to take into account the larger perspective of human health needs, including psychological and social. This cross-sector resource blends the requirements of academic, vocational and industry training, mapping to BSB41419 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety. Available only on the MindTap platform, WHS: A Management Guide, 6e is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: - WHS: A Management Guide eBook - In-depth case studies with questions that help students to apply chapter concepts to the workplace - Concept clip videos recap core processes and concepts from the chapter, supporting student understanding of WHS terminology and concepts - ‘In your workplace’ scenarios with questions prompt students to consider the challenges of various WHS situations - Revision quizzes, ‘Check your understanding’ questions, 'What do you think?' polling activities, and more Learn more about the online tools cengage.com.au/mindtap

The previous edition of the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors made history as the first unified source of reliable information drawn from many realms of science and technology and created specifically with ergonomics professionals in mind. It was also a winner of the Best Reference Award 2002 from the Engineering Libraries