
Serious Incident Prevention
How to Sustain Accident-Free Operations in Your Plant or Company
- 2nd Edition - June 18, 2002
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Author: Thomas Burns
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 9 6 4 4 - 2
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 7 5 2 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 8 0 8 5 - 5
This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to ma… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThis is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort.
Serious incidents affect a company's most important and most visible measures of performance, including profitability and company image. Use the author's ground-breaking method for preventing serious incidents, from a team perspective. Whether applied in real-life situations or in the classroom, this method will help you create a safer, more profitable plant.
Up to date information and expanded topic coverage is provided in this new edition. There are two new chapters. One covers leveraging the power of behavior-based techniques and the other covers the benefits of developing teamwork skills. New material features case studies of corporations that have achieved a high degree of success from the implementation of Burns' techniques. Additionally, the author has included safety performance scorecards, a practical and effective tool for preventing serious incidents.
- Updated with all new material on teamwork skills and behavior-based techniques
- This unique method shows the user how to prevent serious incidents before they occur
- Includes cases of real-life examples and safety performance scorecards
- Edition: 2
- Published: June 18, 2002
- No. of pages (eBook): 216
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123996442
- Hardback ISBN: 9780750675215
- eBook ISBN: 9780080480855
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