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Workplace Safety, Risk Management, and Industrial Hygiene

About the Book Series

This new series will provide the reader with a comprehensive selection of publications covering all topics appertaining to the health and safety of people at work, at home, and during recreation. It will deal with the technical aspects of the profession, as well as the psychological ramifications of safe human behavior. This new series will include books covering the areas of accident prevention, loss control, physical risk management, safety management systems, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, public safety, home safety, recreation safety, safety management, injury management, near miss incident management, school safety guidance, and other related areas within the Occupational Health and Safety discipline.

Should you be interested in including your own book in this series, please contact James Hobbs the Editor for Ergonomics/Human Factors and Occupational Health and Safety on [email protected].

8 Series Titles


The Design, Implementation, and Audit of Health and Safety Management Systems, Second Edition

The Design, Implementation, and Audit of Health and Safety Management Systems, Second Edition

2nd Edition

Forthcoming

By Ron C. McKinnon
October 07, 2025

In today's complex work environments, occupational health and safety are critical concerns for all organizations. This title offers an in-depth exploration of creating, implementing, and evaluating structured safety management systems (SMS). As safety regulations and laws require every workplace to...

Measuring Safety Management Performance

Measuring Safety Management Performance

1st Edition

By Ron C. McKinnon
May 26, 2025

Measuring Safety Management Performance lists and explains the difference between lagging and leading measures of safety management performance. It informs the reader how to use both proactive and reactive safety performance indicators and explains that consequence measurement is not an accurate ...

Learning from Near Misses Cross-Sector Reflections to Support Safety Management

Learning from Near Misses: Cross-Sector Reflections to Support Safety Management

1st Edition

Edited By Nick Woodier
March 25, 2025

Learning from Near Misses can provide opportunities to improve safety without the need for harm to have first occurred. Near misses are ‘free lessons’ which are high volume and rich in value. However, some sectors are yet to embrace learning from near misses to improve the effectiveness and safety ...

The Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss

The Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss

2nd Edition

By Ron C. McKinnon
December 19, 2024

The Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss takes the reader through 15 phases of a typical workplace accident and shows how accidents can be prevented by the introduction of safety management controls in the form of a structured health and safety management system (SMS). It proposes that ...

A Practical Guide to Effective Workplace Accident Investigation

A Practical Guide to Effective Workplace Accident Investigation

1st Edition

By Ron C. McKinnon
May 27, 2024

This book explains how accidents and high potential near-miss incidents are caused, and how to eliminate recurrences by effective accident investigation methods. It shows how to conduct an immediate and root cause analysis so that remedial measures can be taken to prevent a recurrence of similar ...

Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss with Accident Investigation Kit

Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss with Accident Investigation Kit

1st Edition

By Ron Charles McKinnon
December 18, 2020

Accident: an undesired event that results in loss. Most people give little thought to accidents or their prevention. Health and safety professionals face this challenge, and its associated costs and losses, both human and financial, every day. Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss with ...

Changing the Workplace Safety Culture

Changing the Workplace Safety Culture

1st Edition

By Ron C. McKinnon
July 15, 2013

Despite the fact that workplaces have implemented and followed new safety innovations and approaches, the majority of them have seen little, if any, significant progress in the reduction of accidental deaths and injuries. Changing the Workplace Safety Culture demonstrates that changing the way an ...

Safety Management Near Miss Identification, Recognition, and Investigation

Safety Management: Near Miss Identification, Recognition, and Investigation

1st Edition

By Ron C. McKinnon
February 27, 2012

Close calls, narrow escapes, or near hits. History has shown repeatedly that these "near-miss" incidents often precede loss producing events, but are largely ignored or go unreported because nothing (no injury, damage or loss) happened. Thus, many opportunities to prevent the accidents that the ...

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