How Safe Is Safe Enough? Leadership, Safety and Risk Management

How Safe Is Safe Enough? Leadership, Safety and Risk Management Greg Alston Ashgate November 2003 126 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-3891-X (hardback) £27.50

Keywords Safety, Risk, Risk management

Review DOI 10.1108/01437730410544809

This compact volume is written by a US Air Force colonel with a responsibility for safety in that organisation; he also teaches on safety and other topics on a number of programmes. The book is designed to be an overview for organisational leaders of what is involved in safety management.

In 11 short chapters, Greg Alston gives readers a taste of a number of topics, attempting to bring together material on a number of safety and risk issues (such as understanding probabilities, risk management at different levels in the organisation, and designing safety programmes) to give organisational leaders an insight into the scope of the problem, but also its manageability. Many of these topics are dealt with in other books in more detail, but it would seem that...