Health and Safety in a Changing World

Robert Dingwall was Director of the Research Programme at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).Shelley Frost is the Executive Director for Policy at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

• Introduction ROBERT DINGWALL AND SHELLEY FROST1 Do the public have a problem with health and safety? MIKE ESBESTER AND PAUL ALMOND2 The changing landscape of occupational safety and health policy in the UK STAVROULA LEKA, ADITYA JAIN, GERARD ZWETSLOOT, NICHOLAS ANDREOU AND DAVID HOLLIS3 The use of knowledge in occupational safety and health: from knowledge creation to employee use JOANNE O. CRAWFORD, ALICE DAVIS, GUY H. WALKER, HILARY COWIE AND PETER J. RITCHIE4 Health and safety knowledge in networked organisations PHIL BUST, ALISTAIR GIBB, ANDY DAINTY, ALISTAIR CHEYNE, RUTH HARTLEY, JANE GLOVER, AOIFE FINNERAN, ROGER HASLAM AND PATRICK WATERSON5 Engagement of smaller organisations in occupational safety and health JAMES PINDER, ALISTAIR GIBB, ANDY DAINTY, WENDY JONES, MIKE FRAY, RUTH HARTLEY, ALISTAIR CHEYNE, AOIFE FINNERAN, JANE GLOVER, ROGER HASLAM, JENNIE MORGAN, SARAH PINK, PATRICK WATERSON, ELAINE YOLANDE GOSLING AND PHIL BUST6 Safety leadership: fashion, function, futureCOLIN PILBEAM, NOELEEN DOHERTY AND DAVID DENYERConclusion: stepping up to the challenge SHELLEY FROST AND ROBERT DINGWALL

"The book is well structured with reference to major H&S disasters and the changing context of policy moving on to closer scrutiny of the policies and examination of how policy is informed by reliable knowledge and underpinned by evidence...The penultimate chapter on safety leadership is particularly interesting as it explores how the current thinking on H&S is based on a ‘command and control’ model that is now less effective with less relevance and the authors make the case persuasively that less enforcement of rules and policies and more on employee engagement and empowerment may be a better basis for achieving H&S objectives. Although the target audience is H&S practitioners and indeed would be essential reading for that group, the book would also be a very enjoyable read for anyone with a passing interest in the field.Rating ★★★✩(Buy and keep)"David Haldane, Society of Occupational Medicine