Safety management in small businesses

The crux of this thesis was the investigation of how safety was managed in small businesses. The research considered how management differed from the approaches championed by large employers. The concern was that, that which was good practice for some businesses may not necessarily have transposed to others, which differ in terms of number of employees, managerial complexity and access to information and advice. The research was strongly based on recently propounded and popular models and theories of business management. The McKinsey 7-S Framework® was used as a skeleton to facilitate the ordering and collection of data. [Continues.]