Have you ever experienced a life changing injury to work colleagues or even a fatality in your workplace? Andrew Tilleard has and it has been life changing. As someone who has first-hand experience of working internationally in the offshore oil and gas seismic exploration industry, first in operations then later as a safety consultant, he has seen and experienced a lot of dangerous work practices offshore especially in the almost wild-west pre-Piper Alpha North Sea days of the 1980s.This book was created as a reference for safety professionals and willful business managers across all industries to understand how safety management should work to protect people, details where safety vulnerabilities can exist within organisations and the often catastrophic consequences that can result when top management are not aware of what is really going on in their businesses. It also provides guidance on how to organise, implement and verify safety management components to manage risk more effectively.The book has been created as a book of two halves. Part 1 deals with eleven major accident scenarios, the stories of how these disasters unfolded and why they happened. Part 2 of the book extracts the contributory safety management failings from these events, explains what these risk management processes should do and provides some guidance on setting up an effective system having learnt from these disasters. In summary the book has been written to: - Summarise some of the most significant industrial accidents of recent times, giving an abridged version of events leading up to each accident scenario in an accessible and non-technical way.- Describe the root and contributory causes of these accidents.- Provide guidance on a number of important safety management elements which failed to some degree in the accidents described and detail how they are supposed to work.These accident scenarios provide a rich seam to mine when we examine safety management failings. These are not hypothetical events or theoretical scenarios, they are real-world accidents that happened leaving a wake of destruction in their path for the people involved, their families and out into the wider community too. These accident scenarios illustrate how effective safety management controls within an organisation can be influenced and distorted by the acts and omissions of workers and management and by the often-hidden influences of human factors and by human error. The results of these influences have the potential to impact on anyone of us if we are unfortunate to be in the line of fire on a particular day, in a particular place at a particular time