How Safety Works

How Safety Works

The most common way to improve safety is to learn from our mistakes and through progressive insight. But then something usually has to happen first with the risk of injury or damage. That is exactly what we want to avoid. Nobody wants an incident or accident. Reactive safety management is necessary but obviously not enough.

THIS BOOK IS ENTIRELY AND EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT PROACTIVE SAFETY MANAGEMENT.

In this book, you will learn how to carry out activities to prevent unwanted performance, incidents, and accidents. You learn how to deal effectively with hazards and risks. You will discover how applying 52 proactive safety principles contributes to mission accomplishment. These safety principles can be the starting point for many interesting and instructive safety discussions within your team or organization.

This book “How Safety Works” is based on practice – on knowledge, insight, and experience that has proven itself for more than a century in both the civilian and military aviation world. It is a valuable resource for any aviation professional. Since safety principles are generally applicable, this book is also well suited to other sectors.

If you're curious about How Safety Works, you'll find 52 inspiring answers in this book.

If you want to work on creating or improving Safety Performance or the Safety Culture within your team or organization, then make sure you can apply all 52 safety principles effectively and at the right times. It is not any harder than that.

And if you already know everything, this book is a great gift to help someone else become a safety professional too.


Geert Hulshof  has over 40 years of experience in civil and military aviation. As a commander, instructor, and examiner, he has always been concerned with safety. He holds a master's degree in enterprise risk management and specializes in proactive safety management and integrated management systems. As a coach and trainer Geert Hulshof has taught the safety principles in this book to many aviation professionals and organizations.

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