I am just getting into Carsten Busch’s book The Heinrich Project III and it has already made it onto my top 10 list for safety pros.
Carsten put together all of H.W. Heinrich’s articles and speeches from when he was with Traveler’s Insurance. If you are a believer, as I am, in many of the traditional OSH approaches to preventing accidents, you will be amazed at Heinrich’s ability to be the safety pioneer he was. To realize he wrote these articles in the 1920’s and 1930’s is just mind-boggling. And much of what he said nearly 100 years ago STILL HOLDS TRUE TODAY. But this book that Carsten has put together compliments Heinrich’s books as we get to see his thought process and reasoning well before his first official safety book was published.
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