Description
A safe life is not something that simply happens on its own. There is always something that needs to be done so that people feel that their environment, including their workplace, is safe—that they are not threatened by an accident, injury, or that the activities they carry out do not threaten or badly influence their health. To realize a safe life in a safe workplace and private environment means acquiring the principles of a safety culture and including them in all of one’s actions. Occupational health and safety is embedded in the basic laws of economically developed countries.
If we take into consideration the fact that absolute, 100 percent safety does not exist, then we can state that zero-risk does not exist either. This philosophical approach toward life conditions the relationship between man and environment. The intensity of this relationship, as a part of safety culture, is directly dependent on having a society that is economically, ethically, and morally developed.
The economic determination of the value of human life is possible only from a very subjective point of view. This value is determined especially by attitudes of insurance companies. Most experts and scientists dealing with occupational health and safety, safety of machines and mechanical systems, safety of technological units, and civil safety, are of the opinion that an objective evaluation of human life can only be approximate. I agree with the opinion that everybody’s life has the same value, and that it is important for any society to create conditions that protect human life during any activities within the environment. It is only natural that health protection is a more parametric system. One must be an active element of this system and act to include prevention of negative conditions in one’s culture of life. This means that one must be convinced to live so that any risks confronted during life will be minimal or minimized.
The relationship toward a safe life can be inherited, imprinted through upbringing and education, but it will surely not be created by itself. Therefore, it is important to lay out conditions to mediate consciousness for safe actions to children from the first, which begins in kindergarten. It is only right to include classes on practical environmental safety habits for this generation’s youth in elementary schools and high schools. Laying out these conditions during the first three years of college education is an effective procedure. Scholarly discussions nowadays aim at assigning specialized lectures and seminars dealing with safety and risks as part of our environment in engineering, science, and socioscientific programs. It is effective to educate top safety and risk management experts in specialized study programs at engineering colleges, while a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of safety in practical life is used therein.
Contents
Chapter 1 Safety Culture: Prerequisite for the Development of Modern Society.
Chapter 2 Legislative Regulations: Expectations for a Single Approach within Risk Management in the Man–Machine–Environment System
Chapter 3 Risk Management as a Part of Integrated Systems for Business Management
Chapter 4 Theory and Selected Applications of Risk Management
Chapter 5 Certain Risks and Principles of Their Management
Chapter 6 Risk Management and Its Application in Safety and Security Systems
Chapter 7 Education as Part of the Training of Experts in Risk Management.