{"title":"Books by Tom Bourne","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-blindspot-before-the-disaster","title":"The Blindspot Before the Disaster","description":"Major organisational disasters are not random. They are predictable. In the months and years before every catastrophic failure, before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, the Grenfell Tower fire, the Space Shuttle disasters, the Pike River explosion, the warning signs were already present. They were systematically unseen. Organisational blindness to accumulating risk is not a malfunction. In many organisations, it is the system working exactly as designed. This book explains why and what can be done about it.   The Blindspot Before the Disaster identifies the five organisational conditions that converge to produce this failure of sight: Signal Attenuation, Normalised Tolerance, Structural Secrecy, Production Gravity, and Leadership Detachment. Together they form the Blindspot Model, a practical diagnostic framework grounded in four decades of disaster scholarship and demonstrated across 11 of the most significant industrial catastrophes of the past 40 years.   This book is written for the leaders, safety professionals, and governance practitioners who are responsible for preventing harm before it occurs. It bridges the gap between rigorous academic disaster theory and the practical needs of people working in high-consequence environments. It does not assign blame. It offers something more useful: a structured, evidence-based way of seeing the danger that is already in the room.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503634260341,"sku":"9781041393375","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781041393375.jpg?v=1786867342"},{"product_id":"understanding-criminal-liability-for-workplace-harm-in-australia","title":"Understanding Criminal Liability for Workplace Harm in Australia","description":"Courts in Australia routinely prosecute workplace harm as criminal conduct. Leaders, officers, and organisations are held accountable not only for what they did, but for what they failed to foresee, prevent, or control. This book examines how courts determine criminal responsibility after workplace harm, tracing the judicial reasoning that separates conviction from acquittal.   The book is structured around real, publicly available court decisions and prosecution outcomes and cases related to workplace safety drawn from jurisdictions across Australia. It covers three categories of prosecution: fatalities and industrial manslaughter cases, where physical harm exposes systemic failure; officer prosecutions, where distance, delegation, and governance are tested against statutory duties; and psychosocial prosecutions, where courts assess culture, workload, and behaviour as safety systems capable of causing harm. Each chapter analyses a specific case, tracing the prosecution's argument, the defence position, the judicial reasoning, and the outcome. The book's central question is one that practitioners regularly face but rarely have answered with precision: why do prosecutions succeed in some cases and fail in others? The answer is that courts apply the concept of reasonably practicable with remarkable consistency, and this book makes those patterns visible and accessible to every person with a duty of care.   Understanding Criminal Liability for Workplace Harm in Australia: The Reasonably Practicable Standard has been written for safety leaders, officers, directors, and regulators as well as lawyers, who make decisions under uncertainty and who may later find those decisions scrutinised in court.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503685509493,"sku":"9781041430933","price":55.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781041430933.jpg?v=1786867395"},{"product_id":"work-without-harm","title":"Work Without Harm","description":"Most organisations producing psychological harm at work are not doing so out of indifference. They are doing so because the frameworks their leaders inherited do not match what the law now demands, what the science now establishes, and what the consequences of failure now entail.   Work Without Harm closes that gap. Drawing on four decades of research and the regulatory frameworks now operating across Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the European Union, and beyond, the book sets out what the duty to provide psychologically safe work actually requires of officers, executives, boards, and the people who manage work day-to-day.   The book moves past wellbeing programmes, employee assistance schemes, and resilience training—the interventions evidence shows to be the least effective response to psychosocial risk—and into the territory the law is actually targeting: how work is designed, how managers behave, how organisations decide what conditions to permit, and how boards govern what they cannot themselves observe.   Five case studies, constructed as composites from documented enforcement outcomes, published inquiry findings, and patterns encountered repeatedly in practice, demonstrate what failure looks like in professional services, mining, healthcare, the public sector, and remote work, and what the analytical frameworks would have surfaced earlier.   Written for executives, officers, directors, safety and HR leaders, regulators, and policy makers, Work Without Harm is neither a compliance manual nor a wellbeing book. It is a treatment of psychosocial risk as the safety, governance, and personal liability issue the legal frameworks have already concluded it is, and a practical guide to discharging the duty that follows.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57680308633973,"sku":"9781041464280","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57682817581429,"sku":"9781041464297","price":171.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-tom-bourne.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}