Safety Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-4472-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: The Interface of Safety and Security

Safety is an important aspect of everyday business operations. It can have an impact on the operations of an enterprise as well as the wellbeing of the workers. Literature shows that SMEs face extra problems in this area due to limited resources and lack of knowledge. A potential accident on the premises, in many cases, has devastating consequences. SMEs make up the vast majority of private companies in the EU and beyond. Despite the importance of the issue, the information found in literature is scattered and often not aimed at SMEs. This book aims to gather the latest information and become the full reference point for designing and adopting an appropriate safety strategy for SMEs.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boustras, George

Guldenmund, Frank W.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik Industrielle Qualitätskontrolle
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction

GEORGE BOUSTRAS AND FRANK W. GULDENMUND

Chapter 2 Risk Assessment: Getting the ‘Big Picture’

MATILDE A. RODRIGUES, PEDRO AREZES

AND CELINA PINTO LEÃO

Chapter 3 Safety Management

GEORGE BOUSTRAS, ATHANASIOS

HADJIMANOLIS AND CLEO VARIANOU-MIKELLIDOU

Chapter 4 Safety Performance in an SME

Environment

ANCA MUTU, FRANK W. GULDENMUND AND

PIETER VAN GELDER

Chapter 5 Safety Climate of Small-to-Medium

Enterprises

STEPHANIE C. PAYNE, MINDY E. BERGMAN,

NATHANAEL L. KEISER AND XIAOHONG XU

Chapter 6 Competences for a Culture

of Prevention: Conditions for Learning

and Change in SMEs

ULRIKE BOLLMANN

Chapter 7 Micro-SME s: A Special Case

ATHANASIOS HADJIMANOLIS AND GEORGE

BOUSTRAS

Chapter 8 Monitoring and Modifying a Safety

Management System

FRANK W. GULDENMUND AND MERLIJN MIKKERS

Chapter 9 Risk Communication in SMEs

NICHOLAS PARIS AND JAN GUTTELING

Über Autor(innen)

George Boustras is a PhD in Probabilistic Fire Risk Assessment from CFES at Kingston University London. George had been appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at CPSE at Imperial College London, and he was KTP Research Fellow at FSEG at the University of Greenwich. George is currently an Associate Professor at European University Cyprus, Dean of the Ioannis Gregoriou School of Business Administration. George is the Director of the Center for Risk, Safety and the Environment (CERISE) of EUC. He is Representative of the Republic of Cyprus in the Socio-Economic Committee of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). He sits at the Management Committee of Secure Societies - Protecting Freedom and security of Europe and its citizens of "HORIZON 2020". He was recently appointed by the President of the Republic in the Energy Strategy Council of the Republic of Cyprus. George is Associate Editor of Safety Science (Elsevier) and Member of the Editorial Board of Fire Technology (Springer).
Frank Guldenmund studied psychology at Leiden University and majored (with distinction) in both cognitive psychology and methods & statistics. In February 1992 he joined the Safety Science Group at Delft University of Technology (DUT), primarily as a methodologist but later became a full staff member, joining in the research and educational tasks of the Group. His research gradually became focused on modelling and assessing (the quality of) safety management systems. Within this context his interest was raised in the topic of safety culture, which he has been pondering since the middle 90s. In January 2010 he defended (with distinction) his PhD thesis ‘Understanding and exploring safety culture’ at DUT. He has been providing trainings and presentations on safety culture both nationally and internationally for many years. In this capacity he operates as trainer for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in their safety culture self-assessment program.