Primed for Safety: Understanding the Invisible Forces Behind Workplace Incidents is a practical, systems-focused guide for safety professionals who want to move beyond blaming individuals and start preventing incidents where they actually begin.Workplace incidents rarely occur because someone suddenly made a bad decision. More often, they are the predictable outcome of pressures, priorities, habits, and signals that have been shaping behaviour long before the day s...

Safety Always, Not Safety First: An ICAM-Centred PerspectiveFor decades, organisations have declared Safety First— and yet serious incidents, repeated failures, and organisational harm continue to occur.This book explains why.Safety Always, Not Safety First challenges one of the most familiar phrases in safety by exposing a hard truth: when safety is treated as a priority, it becomes negotiable. Under pressure, priorities s...

ICAM in Action: A Beginner's Guide to Real-World Safety InvestigationsIncidents don't happen because people suddenly stop caring or forget how to do their jobs. They occur in complex systems where good people constantly navigate pressure, trade-offs, and imperfect conditions.ICAM in Action is a plain-English guide for anyone new to safety, investigations, or ICAM who wants to understand what really drives incidents- and how to learn from them witho...

Clair’s Story of Unrequited Love — A Standalone PrequelWhether or not you’ve read the original novel, A Simple Act of Kindness, in this novel, Clair Hansley’s epic emotional journey stands tenderly on its own. This heartfelt prequel introduces a heroine whose quiet strength and guarded hope shape the story that follows.Before Audrey and Jonathan met as adults, there was Clair: a woman who knew Jonathan since 2nd grade. She learned to trust God with...

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A Practical Guide to Career Learning and Development is an essential guide for all those involved in careers education, either with sole responsibility or as part of a team. With a focus on career happiness, resilience and growth, this exciting book offers effective pedagogical strategies, techniques and activities to make career learning and development accessible and enjoyable, contributing to positive outcomes for all young people in the 11-19 phase of their education.W...

Sandra Thom-Jones has tried all kinds of work—selling flowers, tending bar, office work, university leadership. Along the way she has made some mistakes, had some successes, and learnt a lot about the barriers and facilitators for autistic people building a career in a predominantly neurotypical work environment.Thom-Jones shares her personal experiences and reflections as well as those of her colleagues, providing insights into the challenges and benefits of both being and working...

Effective supervision helps to nurture confident social workers who are able to look after service users in the best possible way. Social work supervisors and managers need mastery of the relevant knowledge and skills in order to ensure successful social work practice.This book is an accessible guide to the essential skills of social work supervision. It covers the development of the supervisor–supervisee relationship, the assessment and management of risk, understanding and managi...

Your plain-English introduction to organisational behaviourOrganisational Behaviour (OB) is the study of how people, individuals, and groups act in organisations. Whether you're studying OB, or you just want a better understanding of people at work, Organisational Behaviour For Dummies gives you all the essentials for understanding this fascinating subject.Inside you'll find out about personality and individual differences, teams and groups, person...

For far too long, emotions have been ignored in favor of rationality and efficiency.  Breakthroughs in brain science have revealed that people are primarily emotional decision-makers.  Many companies have not yet accepted that fact, ignoring emotion in favor of rationality and efficiency.  Even fewer have acted on it. Emotionomics looks at emotions in terms of business opportunities, both in the marketplace and in the workplace.  In today's highly competitive marketplace where many products l...

This book for passing PTLLS assessments (which has been replaced with Passing Assessments for the Award in Education and Training) gives key advice on completing written and practical assessments, and helps both in-service and pre-service candidates fully understand the requirements of the Award and how to evidence their achievement towards the standards. ThisSecond Editionis for the four unit PTLLS.This book:helps candidates with their written assessments, with infor...

In healthcare settings, the term mentorship is normally used to describe the supervision of a pre-registration student by a qualified practitioner. Mentorship can be very formal or relatively informal. It can also be practised differently in particular locations, settings and healthcare professions. This clear, concise book transcends professional and geographical boundaries in order to focus on the essential characteristics of effective mentorship. It will therefore be useful to a very wide ...