Safety is the Strategy: The Unexpected Path to Performance – Hardcover

This book shows how, by focusing on the single goal of safety, major accident events can be reduced while simultaneously improving the profitability and performance of the company. Current thinking has not succeeded in consistently reducing major accident event occurrences. Most practitioners think of safety and profitability as opposing goals. The novel approach taken by this book provides a framework by which these goals can be concurrently achieved. Demonstrating an original approach and mindset, the authors address the continued market pressure for margin expansion in conjunction with the increasing visibility and accountability to the public for safety and environmental stewardship to benefit professionals in high-hazard industries. The book provides a systematic and holistic approach to implementing this concept while sustaining and improving ongoing operations, illustrating the ideas with concrete examples and steps that a practitioner can implement. The book is written for managers and operations professionals in industrial settings, particularly within high-hazard sectors such as resource exploration and extraction, chemical processing and refining, heavy industrial processing, transportation, construction, and power generation.