Includes bibliographical references and index.

A framework of managing total safety -- Total safety management : why? / Tom Kontogiannis -- Understanding hazards and risks : the need for a common operational picture / Tom Kontogiannis and Maria Chiara Leva -- Understanding hazards and risks -- Process risk assessment : from the basics to new frontiers / Micaela Demichela and Gabriele Baldissone -- Bowties for occupational risk management / Olga Aneziris and Ioannis Papazoglou -- A system dynamics approach in modeling business process in safety management and production / Tom Kontogiannis, Dimitris Boukas and Christina Malaki -- Establishing and monitoring a common operational picture -- Developing a risk register to deliver risk intelligence / Maria Chiara Leva and Richard Sheehan -- Continuous monitoring in safety performance / Payam Amir-Heidari -- Safety by design : design of inland container terminals with dangerous goods / Gemma Dolores Molero, Francisco Enrique Santarremigia, Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán and Juan-Pascual Pastor-Ferrando -- Managing knowledge, skills and changes in the context of business strategy -- Total project planning : integration of task analysis, safety analysis and optimisation techniques / Leva, Maria Chiara, Balfe, Nora, Ciarapica-Alunni, Costanza, Prast, Steve, O'Mahony, Stephen -- Knowledge management in total safety for major hazards plants / Olga Aneziris, Zoe Nivolianitou, Myrto Konstantinidou, Emmanuel Plotand George Mavridis -- Effective virtual reality training for safety critical activites in the process industry / Tom Kontogiannis, Marko Gerbec and Mehdi Sbaouni -- Total project planning: integration of task analysis, safety analysis and optimisation techniques/ Maria Chiara Leva, Nora Balfe, Costanza Ciarapica-Alunni, Steve Prast and Stephen O'Mahony--Management of technical and organizational changes in major hazard industries / Marko Gerbec and David Levovnik -- Risk and productivity : the way forward / David Levovnik, Marko Gerbec and Maria Chiara Leva -- Index.