Safety Book is a Winner
by Hal on February 12, 2004
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I've continued my search for a few good books on safety. Thank you to those readers who left comments and sent me emails with their recommendations. In short, I've still not found much out there. Greg Howell, champion of the IGLC 2004 safety track sent me a copy of Proactive Risk Management in a Dynamic Society, by Jens Rasmussen and Inge Svedung. This book is a winner!
Ok, I have nothing to compare this book to. I haven't read others. And you can't get it in the US. The book is published by The Swedish Rescue Services Agency, www.srv.se. The title is descriptive of the authors' premise:
"In a dynamic environment…risk management can no longer be based on responses to past accidents and incidents, but must be increasingly proactive. Risk management must apply an adaptive, closed loop feedback control strategy…(A) human organization presents a particular potential for such adaptive control, given the right conditions — people are a very important safety resource, not only an error source."
That "important safety resource" is the same as the capacity for autonomic project controls. It is the untapped observation and assessment abilities of the project participants scattered about our work sites. We need to learn to call on that capability, to develop it further, and to redefine the (arbitrary) boundaries of planning, execution, and control.
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
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