Health and Safety: Risk Management

Tony Boyle began his career with the National Institute of Industrial Psychology in 1968. He has held various occupational safety and occupational psychology research and lecturing posts. Until 1998 he was chairman of the health and safety consultancy Hastam. He remains a non-executive director of the company. With a master’s degree in computer expert systems, he has developed several computer programs for use in health and safety and environmental management. He has also produced audit and evaluation systems for a number of organisations. He has also carried out expert witness work, including work on high-profile cases such as the Buncefield explosion and the Potters Bar derailment. Tony has published over 50 papers, articles and chapters on accident causation, statistics in accident analysis, computer applications and human factors aspects of safety. He is a frequent contributor to the Hastam blog at hastam.co.uk. He is a chartered fellow of IOSH, a chartered psychologist, a registered occupational psychologist and a certified risk professional.

1 Preliminaries


　


Part 1.1: Risk management – introduction


　


2 Part 1.1 – overview


3 Risk management – setting the scene


4 Key elements of risk management


5 Risk assessment


6 Risk control


7 Safe systems of work


8 Monitoring and measuring losses


9 Identifying causes and patterns


10 Monitoring and measuring conformity


11 Other elements of occupational health and safety management systems


12 Communication and training


　


Part 1.2: Human factors – introduction


　


13 Part 1.2 – Common themes and overview


14 The individual – sensory and perceptual processes


15 The individual – psychology


16 The human factors environment


　


Part 2.1: Risk management – advanced


　


17 Part 2.1 – overview


18 Management systems


19 Measuring performance


20 Advanced accident investigation and risk assessment


21 Advanced risk control techniques


22 Emergency planning


23 Advanced audit and review


24 Financial issues


　


Part 2.2: Human factors – advanced


　


25 Part 2.2 – overview


26 Individual differences


27 Human error


28 Perception and decision making


29 External influences on human error


30 Improving human reliability


　


Index