| This text for safety professionals, students, and others concerned with the reduction of injury in organizational and community settings discusses how psychology influences the safety and health of people. In the first section, Geller (psychology, Virginia Tech.) discusses safety theory and a variety of approaches, such as behavior-based programs, ergonomics, government action, and poster campaigns. Other sections cover human barriers to safety (such as human nature, perceived risk, and stress), behavior-based psychology, behavior-based intervention, actively caring behaviors, evaluation, and maintaining involvement. The second edition includes three new chapters on behavioral safety analysis, intervening with supportive conversation, and promoting high-performance teamwork.
You cannot improve your organization's safety performance to enviable levels without addressing human behavior and attitude effectively. The only comprehensive reference on the psychology of the human dynamics of safety, The Psychology of Safety Handbook shows you how to apply psychology to improve safety and health in your organization. Dr. Geller provides theory, procedures, and tools to guide your organization's long-term continuous improvement. Based on Dr. Geller's bestselling The Psychology of Safety, this new and expanded Handbook gives you everything you need to decrease the frequency and severity of accidental injuries in your organization. He covers all areas of psychology directly relevant to understanding and influencing safety-related behaviors. Engineering interventions and government policy have made their mark on injury reduction. Now it is time to work with the human dynamics of injury prevention. The cause of most injuries can be attributed to at-risk behavior or insufficient safe behavior. The Psychology of Safety Handbook not only teaches principles and practical procedures for improving safety-related behaviors, but also illustrates how to increase people's willingness to use these techniques to create a Total Safety Culture.
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