Performance Safety Book Gives Real-World Solutions in Workplace Safety

New workplace Performance Safety resource helps managers and employees work safely while enhancing productivity and profits.

Richmond, VA (PRWEB) April 30, 2004 --- Performance Safety: Lessons For Life" (ISBN: 1-932794-05-0), released through Filbert Publishing, is now available. This second performance-based safety book by Randy DeVaul, a leading expert in Performance Safety principles and practices, exceeds every expectation. The book provides managers with safety solutions to integrate safe performance into production, human resources, quality, engineering, and other performance-oriented functions.

Performance Safety principles and practices add value to the workplace through addressing total workplace performance -- processes (systems), procedures (expectations), and practices (employees) -- while adding value to a companys productivity and profits.

Performance Safety: Lessons For Life," takes Performance Safety principles and applies them to real-world work environments. The book provides training articles for employees and managers on Performance Safety principles at work in the workplace. The second half of the book has 26 (bi-weekly) performance-based safety meeting lessons and masters with a CD of reproducible materials for safety meetings. It is literally a ready to use off the shelf" book to help managers and front-line supervisors prepare for and give safety and training meetings.

How effective is this book? It is already receiving international attention from safety professionals, engineers, trade publications, and others. Reviewer comments include:

Once again, you knock my socks off! Ive always been impressed with your straight-forward, no BS approach to safety. Ill be using this resource to educate our associates to make our operations safer."

Another comment from a technical services manager states, Your latest book should be in every front-line supervisor's hand and on the shelf of every safety professional." ...a simplistic message, yet a fundamentally based message incorporating the latest research."

A behavior-based safety practitioner and consultant states, This book reveals practical principles that organizations can easily implement to reduce accidents and injuries ... proven principles derived from years of experience solving complex problems." If you want your workers to return home safely, then Performance Safety: Lessons For Life is a must read."

Whether in industry or government, private or public sector, this book offers a methodology [that breaks new ground. Regardless of your culture these principles work because they institutionalize the ability of an organization to act proactively."

My first book, Performance Safety: A Practical Approach, lays out the Performance Safety principles with real-world workplace illustrations and events that I personally encountered and utilized," says DeVaul. This second book goes beyond the principles and shows through various examples how to apply these principles with practical real-world solutions to todays workplace safety issues."

The author also produces a monthly ezine, Performance For Life News," a subscriber-based, informative look at all performance-based functions including human resources, safety, and engineering professions, to name a few. This has been steadily growing since our first issue last December," explains DeVaul. Already with nationally-recognized sponsors, PFL News is designed to offer information and solutions to common issues related to employee and equipment performance. The latest issue can be viewed at http://www.pflnews.com.

Performance Safety: Lessons For Life" is available through all major on-line and on-site retailers. Quantity discounts to distribute to the whole management staff or to association members are available through the publisher. Contact the publisher at filbertpublishing@filbertpublishing.com for quantity discounts or for distribution/resale opportunities. Contact with the author for more information or speaking requests can be made at globalperformance@hotmail.com.

Randy DeVaul, M.A., RSHEP, is a nationally-recognized safety professional, author, writer, and speaker. He is an active member with the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Southern California Industrial Safety Society. He is a nationally Registered Safety, Health, Environmental Practitioner. He is happily married with two children and resides in the Richmond, VA area. Contact him for comment or requests at globalperformance@hotmail.com.

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