Serious Incident Prevention:
How to Achieve and Sustain
Accident-Free Operations in
Your Plant Or Company
Second Edition

Tom Burns

Serious incidents can have profound, long-lasting effects on an organization including severe impacts on profitability, employee satisfaction, and company image. Serious Incident Prevention, Second Edition, is your guide to sustaining operations free of serious incidents through an effective, proactive process that helps ensure the conditions and practices necessary for incident-free operations remain in place through all levels of the organization.

Serious Incident Prevention, Second Edition, presents a proven, team-based safety management process that is applicable to any industry, facility, operation, or service organization having the potential for high-consequence events. The process presented in Serious Incident Prevention provides organizations effective methods for achieving and sustaining:

• Management Leadership
• Employee Involvement
• Understanding of Risks
• Implementation of Critical Work for Controlling Risks
• Measures of Upstream Performance Indicators
• Effective Reinforcement and Proactive Corrective Action

Serious Incident Prevention, Second Edition includes updated information and expanded guidance on the development of effective teamwork, measurement systems, and understanding of risks. One new chapter on safety performance indexing explains how to develop a single performance measurement that accurately monitors an organization's overall performance in achieving its mission.

The eight-element process developed in Serious Incident Prevention has proven effective in achieving breakthrough levels of improvement including reductions in:

• Serious Injuries And Fatalities
• Hazardous Material Releases
• Transportation Incidents
• Property Damage Incidents
• Business Interruption
• Security Breaches

For organizations ready to recognize and act upon opportunity, Serious Incident Prevention, Second Edition provides a vision and roadmap for a safer, more prosperous future.

Cost: $64.99
ISBN 0750675195
Gulf Professional Publishing Company

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Thomas Burns, P.E., is an Associate of Quality Safety Edge, and is founder and president of SIP Management Systems, Inc. in Longview, Texas, a consulting and training firm that helps organizations take a proactive approach to maintaining safe and profitable workplaces. During his nearly three decades at Eastman Chemical Company, the company won the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, received OSHA STAR recognition, and was named by Industry Week as one of the world's 100 best-managed companies.