Explains how to implement the best safety practices and why they work. It continues to be a resource on best safety practices. It supplies the reader with the core information that everyone who is in the safety field must know. Each chapter is written in a self contained unit that can be used on its own to cover a topic. The new edition updates all of the chapters from the previous edition while adding new material. Topics in these new chapters include sustainability, lean concepts, management of change/pre-job planning, leading and lagging indicators, and indirect and direct accident costs.