Safety is the Strategy

The Unexpected Path to Performance
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-44184-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Narayan, V.

Ramanujam, Gayatri

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Qualitätsmanagement, Qualitätssicherung (QS), Total Quality Management (TQM)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Disasters

2. Near-Miss Events

3. Causation

4. Human Factors

5. Leadership

6. Risk Management in Process Plants

7. Maintenance Volume Optimization

8. An Integrated Initiative

9. Safety Performance Monitoring

10. In Summary

Appendices

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

V. Narayan is a leading authority on safety, reliability and maintenance. Following his retirement from the Shell Group as their Head of the Centre of Excellence for Production Operations. After a distinguished career driving safety, maintenance and project engineering, he has taught and consulted for various multinationals on these topics for almost two decades. With a broad range of work across sectors, including upstream and downstream oil & gas, automotive, light engineering and pharmaceuticals, his work in more than 20 countries across 6 continents has shaped his perspectives through a wide range of cultures and experiences.

Gayatri Ramanujam began her career as an instrument engineer, designing and implementing control and safety systems. Over more than three decades with a major engineering contractor serving the petrochemical industry, she has worked on projects spanning oil and gas, petrochemicals and chemicals, in multidisciplinary teams and as lead engineer, and has also held roles in project cost control and business process architecture. Trained as a HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) Chairman, she has led numerous HAZOP studies and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) classifications. Her Henley MBA dissertation, on how high reliability organisations reduce rework in engineering and construction, led her to see safety and business performance as one agenda, not two. Her work extends to the reliability and resilience of the processes that underpin safe operations in high-risk industries.