This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process.This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free.Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort. Serious incidents affect a company's most important and most visible measures of performance, including profitability and company image.Use the author's ground-breaking method for preventing serious incidents, from a team perspective.Whether applied in real-life situations or in the classroom, this method will help you create a safer, more profitable plant. Up to date information and expanded topic coverage is provided in this new edition.There are two new chapters. One covers leveraging the power of behavior-based techniques and the other covers the benefits of developing teamwork skills.New material features case studies of corporations that have achieved a high degree of success from the implementation of Burns' techniques.Additionally, the author has included safety performance scorecards, a practical and effective tool for preventing serious incidents.