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Productive Safety Management A strategic, multi-disciplinary management system for hazardous industries that ties safety and production togetherīutterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 2003 Copyright © 2003, Elsevier Ltd. May we understand their pain and so be inspired to work with relentless passion to prevent workplace deaths and injuries in future. I would like to dedicate this book to the countless numbers of families who have lost loved ones through workplace accidents.
