Safety Can't Be Measured: An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Risk Reduction

The British Prime Minister has avowed to ‘kill off the health and safety culture’ which he described as ‘a monster’. Nonetheless, industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative pressure to improve safety when, actually, rates of safety improvement have slowed to a standstill.

In Safety Can't Be Measured, Andrew Townsend suggests the main reason for the stagnation of safety improvement is the failure to recognise the evolution in accident causation and to evolve with it. H...