Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments : A Leadership Perspective

This book provides leaders in high risk industries a better understanding of how their values and behaviors can influence the organization's safety culture and improve its capacity to bounce back from failure. Examples are illustrated through case studies and practical tools are provided to evaluate and improve an organization's culture by improving leadership capability. This unique book integrates the areas of safety culture and high reliability from the perspective of leadership in a work team environment. Readers of the book will get a fresh perspective on safety culture and reliability that can be translated into practical steps for improving their organization through its leadership.

• Provides a practical and holistic approach to understanding safety culture and resilience which is highlighted through case studies
• Integrates the theories underpinning safety culture, accident causation, and authentic leadership, and connects them to leadership behaviors, work team engagement, and safety outcomes
• Extends the perspective of high reliability organizations beyond highly regulated, stable industries to any high risk environment
• Offers a practical toolbox to evaluate and improve organizational safety culture and resilience in the context of leadership
• Presents a fresh perspective on safety culture and reliability that can be translated into practical steps for improving the organization through its leadership

Preface

Part I
Chapter 1 : Understanding Organizational Factors in High-Risk Environments
Chapter 2 : Review of the Literature
Chapter 3 : Case Study Exploring Leadership, Work Team Engagement and Safety Performance in a High Risk Work Environment

Part II
Chapter 4 : Creating the Capacity for Organizational Resilience
Chapter 5 : Toolkit for Assessing and Monitoring Leadership and Safety Culture

References
Index