Good Morning and Happy New Year to you all,

I am at the beginning of my new career as a H&S Adviser. I have completed the NEBOSH Gen Cert, Environmental and Fire Risk Management along with an auditing course. I have also recently commenced the NVQ Diploma as well.

I am looking to expand my resource library and would like to know what personnel have found to be useful in terms of books and online resources in order to help them in their career.

Whilst the IOSH website is good sometimes reading a book is easier for me.

Any suggestions are warmly welcomed.

Vicki

stuff from Trev Kletz on safety accidents is good, and you gain more understanding as your awareness grows. But basic knowledge can always be found in Tolleys or J.Ridleys Safety at Work bibles.......

Hi Vicki,

I found anything by Dr Tim Marsh to be a great read e.g. `Talking Safety` and `Affective Safety Management`. Have a look at his company website `www.rydermarsh.co.uk
The more we can understand how to modify human behaviour, the easy our work will be.

In the same vein, but more to understand why people do what they do, I recommend `Freakonomics` (& it`s follow up) by Levitt & Dubner.

I agree with you about books and even though I download a wealth of information, I still enjoy reading a book. I am away at present, but one I have got to look forward to when I get home is `The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries` by James Reason.

have a great year

Here are some books I have read that you may (or may not) find of use:

Human Factors Related

- Managing the Risks of Organizational Incidents - James Reason
- Human Error - James Reason
- The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations - Sidney Dekker
- Drift into Failure - Sidney Dekker
- Just Culture - Sidney Dekker
- Human Factors Engineering - Christopher D. Wickens, John D. Lee., et al
- Resilience Engineering - Erik Hollnagel, David Woods & Nancy Leveson

Safety Management
- Advanced Safety Management - Fred A. Manuele
- Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment: A Practical Approach -Nicholas J. Bahr
- Safety and Health for Engineers - Roger L. Brauer

Occupational Hygiene

- Principles of Occupational Health & Hygiene -edited by Cherilyn Tillman
- Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene - National Safety Council

Happy Reading!

:o)

For the Love of Zero, Human Fallibility and Risk by Dr Robert Long

Anything by Geller or Tim Marsh

The Emperor Has No Hard Hat by Alan D. Quilley