Reducing Serious Injuries and Fatalities with Evidence-Based Safety

The global occupational safety and health landscape has undergone significant transformation over the past two decades, with newer theories including Resilience Engineering, Safety Differently, and Human Organizational Performance gaining widespread adoption in industry. However, these approaches often promote philosophies rather than evidence-based practices proven to reduce incidents and injuries. Meanwhile, workplace fatalities have increased from 1 million in 1999 to 2.9 million in 2023 according to the International Labor Organization, suggesting that current approaches may be missing the mark on what actually works to prevent harm. This resource bridges the critical knowledge gap by researching specific occupational safety and health topics to identify, assess, and report exclusively on field studies that have demonstrated measurable injury and incident reductions. This book examines evidence-based safety fundamentals, explores ten core safety topics validated through research and catastrophic event analyses, evaluates contemporary safety theories against their actual performance in reducing incidents, and synthesizes findings to reveal common elements and evidence gaps. Readers will gain access to proven, research-backed approaches that deliver real safety improvements rather than theoretical guidance. Reducing Serious Injuries and Fatalities with Evidence-Based Safety is an invaluable resource for safety practitioners, occupational safety and health professionals, academics teaching safety courses, industry trainers developing safety programs, and organizational leaders tasked with protecting their workforce. The book also contains downloadable material in the form of multiple-choice questions and PowerPoint slides.