KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH

You must imderstand the culture ofthe work environment before you can intelligently implement any type of program aimed at the workforce. You need to know and understand the values, attitudes, and perception held by the workforce relevant to job safety and health. This will afford the opportunity to place into action a motivatiortal plan relevant to preventing accidents and incidents in your unique workplace. 

The eauses of the specific types of accident/incident that have occurred within your workplace must be assessed. The approach you wish to use in the assessment and analysis process depends greatly on your familiarity with and the types of occurrences that transpired in your workplace. Analyses covered in this book are root cause, causal factor, change, and barrier analysis. 

This is not a finite listing since other more complex approaches such as Management Oversight and Risk Tree Analysis (MORT), failure mode and effect analysis and the aspects of system safety engineering are not covered within the scope of this book. These approaches can be found in many other books and articles. 

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