Next Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author’s years of experience in high-risk industries. The book provides safety leaders and their organizations with a compelling case for change.
Authored by Clive Lloyd, this book is a must have for any safety professional. Whether you’re an established practitioner or an aspiring one, you will definitely take something away from reading this.
According to the book’s insight, a key predictor of safety performance is trust, while its associated components of integrity, ability and benevolence (care). As explained, the next generation of safety leaders will take the profession forward by creating trust and psychological safety.
What is more, the book takes a lot of the ‘Safety Differently’ and Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) ideas of safety and helps break them down for safety leadership. In other words, it provides safety leaders with actionable goals to enable positive change and translates academic languages into practical applications.
What makes this book a worth read is that it leaves the reader with a clear strategy to move forward in developing a safety plan and utilizes stories, humor, and case studies set in high-risk industries. Written primarily for the safety community and can be used to influence day-to-day safety operations in high-risk companies.
Overall, Clive Lloyd’s book is a must read and learn lexicon of how to start to build a positive safety culture in an organization.
There were many books out there advocating the ’new view’ of safety, but they, in the main, seemed like texts written by academics for academics. I wanted to write a book for the safety leader and practitioner, in straightforward language, and more practical than theoretical in nature. The central theme of the book is that unless leaders first create trust, then little else they do will make a difference. First, create trust!
….as Clive Lloyd commented.