Health and safety management is a key responsibility of organisations. This edition of Safety Management in the Workplace aims at highlighting certain aspects regarding health and safety in the workplace.

The book highlights: occupational health and safety from a global perspective, legislation and competency requirements, the difference between responsibility and accountability, occupational hygiene, first-aid, risk assessment, etc.

Chapter 1: A holistic overview and the value of global OHS – Rigard Steenkamp

• OHS and QWL 
• OHS is a global concern 
• The value of human capital 
• Governments must support OHS excellence 
• The relationship between OHS excellence and business excellence
• QWL companies achieve better results
• Innovation in prevention 
• Global risk concepts 
• OHS challenges demand faith and supernatural intervention
• Global OHS principles 
• A holistic approach to Safety
• A TQM safety and health model 
• Collective behaviour-based safety (BBS) 
• Guidelines for a quality PPE programme 
• Environmental reporting 

Chapter 2: Safety in industry – Cheryl Rielander

• Legal requirements of safety in industry
• Managing occupational health and safety in industry
• Key principles
• Management responsibilities and work practices
• Process safety management
• The safety-man
• Safety practices
• Hazard communication (HAZCOM)
• Emergency management and response plans

Chapter 3: Accountability and responsibility for safety, health and environment – Francois van Loggerenberg

• The relationship between accountability and responsibility
• Key elements of an accountability system
• Employee engagement
• Employees’ engagement with health and safety
• Safety, health and environmental (SHE) system
• Health and safety policy
• Key principles and objectives of a health and safety policy
• Health and safety programme
• Four elements of a health and safety programme
• Health and safety plan

Chapter 4: Managing safety in the workplace – Lizbie Fourie

• Nature of safety in a workplace
• Nature of safety management
• Core principles of safety management in a workplace
• Safety management functions
• Different levels of safety management
• Safety management leadership
• Role of the safety practitioner

Chapter 5: Managing safety in the office environment – Francois van Loggerenberg

• Integrating office safety into an organisation’s policy and strategy
• Core principles of managing safety in the office
• Interaction between employer and employee responsibilities regarding a safe office environment
• Accident prevention programme
• Principles of an accident prevention programme

Chapter 6: Fundamentals of occupational hygiene – Francois van Loggerenberg

• Occupational hygiene defined
• Recognising hazards or agents
• Evaluation of health hazards
• Control of health hazards
• Occupational hygiene programme
• Quality management system
• Auditing of occupational hygiene

Chapter 7: First aid and organisational health and safety – Lizbie Fourie

• Fundamental principles of first aid within organisational safety
• Legal compliance of first aid as part of organisational health and safety
• Responsibilities for first aid in the workplace
• Managing first aid in a workplace
• Workplace injuries or illnesses and first aid
• First-aid assessment in the workplace

Chapter 8: Elements that contribute to unsafe practices in the office environment and how to prevent them – Francois van Loggerenberg

• Unsafe practice defined
• Various forms of unsafe/dangerous practices in an office environment
• The impact of unsafe practices on employees and the organisation

Chapter 9: Risk management: hazard identification and risk assessment – Cheryl Rielander

• Legal requirements of risk assessments
• Risk management versus risk assessment
• Risk management
• Risk management: hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA)
• Hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA) process
• Risk assessment

Chapter 10: Construction safety requirements – Cheryl Rielander

• Legal requirements in construction
• Health and safety in construction
• Design and management in construction
• Training and competency
• Construction sites

Chapter 11: Working at heights, construction vehicles, lifting equipment and vibrations – Cheryl Rielander

• Construction site safety
• Working at heights
• Roof work
• Fall protection
• Ladders
• Scaffolds and suspended platforms
• Construction vehicles
• Lifting equipments
• Vibration

Chapter 12: Confined-space work risks – Leighton Bennett

• What is a confined space?
• What are the dangers in confined spaces?
• The legal requirements
• Permit system for a confined-space programme
• What should happen when work is being done in a confined space?
• Emergency rescue procedures
• Incident issues

This book serves safety professionals, safety practitioners, individuals new to the field of health and safety as well as educators and students preparing for a career in the health and safety industry.