Risk-Led Safety: Evidence-driven Management

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Modern day managers and health & safety professionals are bombarded with advice and pressure from every angle. Phone calls from companies trying to sell services or training and implying that without their help managers could face imprisonment. There are national and international standards that imply that they can provide a suit of armour to fend off enforcement and litigation. There is industry and HSE guidelines that are often mistakenly viewed as prescriptive requirement. Oh - and don't forget the persecution in the press! You can't even go to a bar these days without someone expressing a view on what should be done. All this advice confuses people and can shake their beliefs.

Risk-led Safety, Evidence-driven Management is a book that is a beacon in this storm of opinion. It strips the law back to its basic elements and focuses on its spirit and intent. It dismisses needlessly complicated ideology to reveal what perhaps Lord Robens really had in mind. So if you want a book that uses plain and simple language to explain what the law is really asking you to do, then this is the book for you. In it you will learn fresh ideas that will enable you to:

- use the arguments of reasonableness more effectively.
- identify precisely which risk assessments you need and those you don't.
- avoid common mistakes when risk assessing.
- develop a risk management system through defining which risks are the most significant.
- develop a pragmatic approach to risk control.
- engage employees, managers and the Board and encourage them all to be responsive.
- implement any necessary changes into the workplace.

The authors have over 45 years of experience between them. They have applied and developed these ideas in many different organisations and industries. This is a no nonsense book by health & safety practitioners who have learnt their craft from doing it.