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From Safety to Safety Science

The Evolution of Thinking and Practice

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How do accidents and disasters occur? How has knowledge of accident processes evolved? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the past century, with the number of accidents falling spectacularly within industry, aviation and road traffic. This progress has been gradual in the context of a changing society.

The improvements are partly due to a better understanding of the accident processes that ultimately lead to damage. This book shows how contemporary crises instigated the development of safety knowledge and how the safety sciences pieced their theories together by research, by experience and by taking ideas from other domains.

From Safety to Safety Science details 150 years of knowledge development in the safety sciences. The authors have rigorously extracted the essence of safety knowledge development from more than 2,500 articles to provide a unique overview and insight into the background and usability of safety theories, as well as modelling how they developed and how they are used today. Extensive appendices and references provide an additional dimension to support further scholarly work in this field.

The book is divided into clear time periods to make it an accessible piece of science history that will be invaluable to both new and experienced safety researchers, to safety courses and education, and to learned practitioners.

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CHAPTER 1 THE BIRTH OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, SAFETY AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE: 1800s–1910
UNITED KINGDOM
The century of steam
UNITED STATES
US Steel, road to happiness
The Pittsburgh investigation
Eastman's conclusions
Responsibility for safety
THE NETHERLANDS
The Netherlands during the century of steam
Safety technique according to Westerouwen van Meeteren
Heijermans’ causes of occupational accidents

CHAPTER 2 ACCIDENT PRONENESS, SAFETY BY INSPECTION: 1910-1930
UNITED STATES
The American management approach
Behavioural management
Safety technique
Safety publications
Professionalisation of occupational safety
Safety management according to DeBlois
Heinrich’s influence
Safety propaganda
UNITED KINGDOM
Safety research
Accident proneness
The individual hypothesis
Between thinking and doing
The environmental hypothesis
THE NETHERLANDS
Individual factors

CHAPTER 3 DOMINOS, SAFETY BY TECHNIQUE – PREVENTION: 1931-1950
UNITED STATES
Heinrich's contribution
The domino metaphor
The National Safety Council
The role of the foreman
Accident investigation, chance and effect
Criticism on Heinrich
The epidemiological triangle
UNITED KINGDOM
Accidents and their prevention
THE NETHERLANDS
Limited knowledge development
Safety museum
Safety inspectors

CHAPTER 4 PREVENTION, BEHAVIOUR AND THE MAKEABLE MAN: 1950 – 1970
UNITED STATES
Modern management
Quality control, product versus process
The latter days of Heinrich
Damage control
Criticism on the psychological explanation of accidents
The hazard-barrier-target model
The concept of risk
Reliability engineering
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