This book is based on a series of 12 short articles that were published in safety magazines all over the world. These articles – now chapters – were written and designed to provide a number of different perspectives–or paradigm shifts–in terms of how most people think about industrial safety, and how most people think about accidental injury causation in general.

The book is a great read for those that want to have these great safety topics on hand in one publication, and it’s an excellent companion to his previous book, Inside Out.

This book illustrates the concepts and techniques needed to achieve world-class safety performance both at work and away from work. Readers are given step-by-step instructions on how to apply these concepts and techniques to enhance near-miss reporting, accident/incident investigation, job safety analysis, compliance training and behaviour-based safety processes.

Traditional methods of improving safety performance through extrinsic control will only take you so far. Realizing this, many leading-edge companies have abandoned their old paradigms and have taken a new approach. Learn how to develop a positive safety culture using inside-out thinking—a culture that begins in the workplace and spreads out to include both the family and the community.

This book is based on a series of 12 articles in which global experts explore the answers to some of the most interesting, difficult and even controversial questions on workplace safety. It offers a concise but insightful summary picked from some of the best SafeConnection Expert Panels – a series of online discussions where leaders from the world’s top companies share their current safety strategies to deal with both continuing and emerging challenges in the safety industry.

Written by Mackenzie Wilson, the series has been prepared specifically for you to get the most out of these experts without having to go through 25+ hours of video material. It provides Health and Safety professionals a perspective based on reality vs. theory from experts who have to live with their decisions on a daily basis.

From the paradigm-shifting discussions of two decades ago to the pressing issues of today, this book contains 19 articles that offer profound perspectives that remain as pertinent now as when they were first written. Larry Wilson’s foresight and deep understanding of the safety industry and human error has positioned him as a trailblazer, and these articles serve as a testament to the enduring impact of his thought leadership. From topics like “The Dumb Worker – A New Perspective,” to “Complacency the Silent Killer” to “Creating a Truly Blame Free Learning Organization” this book demonstrates that while safety culture has significantly improved around the world in the last quarter century, some things never change.