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Mastering Occupational Risk Management is a practical, plain English guide to safety risk management for lower risk businesses. Read the first chapter free and see how we think.
Written by Thomas Sproston, with Shaquon O’Garro · Available from Waterstones and Amazon
Start with the foundations
Understanding Hazards and Risk in BusinessThe chapter that sets out how we think about safety: in proportion, in plain English, and without the scare stories.
- The key terms, decoded. Hazard, cause, risk and safety, and why risk is really “a bit of a worry‑gauge”.
- Where safety fits. The main categories of business risk, and how safety links to the others.
- Has health & safety gone mad? A short Q&A on what “reasonable” means, and whether you can be too safe.
- The risk spectrum. Why budgets are never infinite, and how to spread your effort across hazards and people.
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What’s in the full book
Risk, in proportion: neither negligent nor overengineered. A repeatable way to find, assess and control the hazards that matter.
Understanding Hazards and Risk in Business
Key terms, categories of business risk, what “safe” really means, and the risk spectrum.
What Has the Law Ever Done for Us?
What UK law expects of you, as a short plain English checklist.
The Art of Identifying Hazards
Where hazards hide, the “known unknowns”, and which identification techniques to use.
Assessing Risks
Risk matrices, residual risk, and what “so far as is reasonably practicable” means.
Risk Mitigation Strategies
The hierarchy of measures, quick wins versus big ones, and how to show you’ve done enough.
Monitoring and Review in Risk Management
Reviews, reporting, leading and lagging indicators, and a note on safety culture.
The Future of Risk Management: Trends and Innovations
Where risk management is heading: new technology, a learning culture, changing regulation and a joined up view of risk.
Thomas Sproston
Chartered Engineer (CEng) · FPA trained fire risk assessor · Expert witnessThomas leads Westley Lansdowne and signs off the work we do. The book brings the same engineering rigour to lower risk businesses, in plain English.
Written by Thomas Sproston, with Shaquon O’Garro.
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