Human Safety and Risk Management : A Psychological Perspective, 3rd Edition

The third edition of a bestseller, Human Safety and Risk Management: A Psychological Perspective incorporates a decade of new research and development to provide you with a comprehensive and contemporary guide to the psychology of risk and workplace safety. A major enhancement is reflected in the new subtitle for the book, A Psychological Perspective, which highlights both the expertise of the authors and also confirms the predominantly psychological orientation of the revised text.

New in the Third Edition:

• State-of-the-art theory reviews, research findings, and practical applications
• New chapter on impact that sensor technologies have on approaches to safety and risk in contemporary society
• Enhanced chapters on key issues around sensing danger, risk perception, error detection, safety culture, risk management, leadership, teams, and stress management

This book discusses how people perceive and manage risks and how to make the workplace a safer place. It examines the influence of individual factors on safety, as well as team and organizational factors at work, from a psychological perspective. It also highlights changes in safety due to the changing workplace, globalization, and managing employees’ safety and health beyond the workplace — a challenge that many organizations have yet to address. Reflecting current scientific research across a range of disciplines as it applies to human safety and risk management, this book helps you meet the challenges posed by the rapidly evolving workplace.

• Includes a wide range of approaches to risk and risk management
• Explores the role of individual safety attitudes and behavior
• Discusses how team processes contribute to organizational safety
• Examines leadership and organizational factors
• Focuses on the role of stressors in workplace safety

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Sensing Danger
Chapter 3 : Sensor Technology
Chapter 4 : Perceiving Risk
Chapter 5 : Reframing Error
Chapter 6 : Surviving Stress
Chapter 7 : Personality Impacts
Chapter 8 : Group Climate
Chapter 9 : Safety Leadership
Chapter 10 : Safety Culture
Chapter 11 : Managing Risk

References
Glossary
Index