Innovations in Safety Management: Addressing Career Knowledge Needs

I recommend that, as early as practicable, safety practitioners take a course in financial management as a career enhancement measure. To introduce this subject, I borrow from the chapter titled A Short Course on Financial Management in the book Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs. 

Manuele, Ered A. Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs. New York John Wiley Sons, 2001. 

In my book Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs, a chapter is titled Current Developments In Behavioral Safety. Supportive excerpts are taken from that chapter and from my article Perspectives on ASSE S Behavioral Safety Symposium, which appeared in the August 1998 issue of Professional Safety (p. 32). 

Behavior-based safety does not recognize the most effective method of controlling hazards, which is through the application of the hierarchy of controls [p. 7]. (See The Safety Decision Hierarchy in Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs.)... 

In Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs, published in 2003, the following hierarchy of controls was encompassed within The Safety Decision Hierarchy, which is to be discussed later. It may also be found in two articles written by this author Risk Assessment and Hierarchies of Control and Achieving Risk Reduction, Effectively. ... 

A version of this chapter was first published in 2001 in the book Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs (Manuele, 2001). It was written in response to a study initiated by this author to identify emerging knowledge needs for the practice of safety. A part of the study included interviews with senior-level safety professionals to obtain their comments on the subjects they considered significant in maintaining performance at a professional level and for career enhancement. 

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