State-of-the-art in perspective, this text introduces the unique concept of TSM — Total Safety Management — for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment that, in turn, can become a key element in an organization's formula for competitiveness. Using a step-by-step approach — with examples and case studies throughout — it provides a practical, how-to handbook that can be used as an annotated model for implementing TSM in any organization. It shows not only how organizations can create a work environment that is both safe and conducive to peak performance, but how a safe work environment becomes part of everybody's responsibility for creating and maintaining a strategy that will give an organization a sustainable competitive advantage.