Fred Fanning's Management Principles for Safety and Occupational Health Managers is a helpful and easy-to-understand guide for those who wish to succeed in their chosen career path of being a Safety and Occupational Health Manager. It emphasizes the important aspects of the job as a manager, and gives advice on how to handle the different segments of safety and occupational managerial work; from the ABCs of management to stress management with well-researched materials as support.

It's not easy to accumulate and condense twenty years of learning and experiences as a Safety and Occupational Health Manager into one reasonably-sized book, but Fred Fanning has somehow managed to do just that. The information presented in the book is succinctly written, but is clear and easy to understand. It is not an overload of information as some books usually are, but rather it is filled with practical and easy to understand data regarding the important aspects of being a Safety and Occupational Health Manager. It also gives helpful advice so as not to be overwhelmed by the burden of the work.

Fanning's keen perception will definitely help any aspiring managers who wish to do better. He covers the important bases of what Safety and Occupational Managers need to know and expounds his ideas into easy-to-understand essays. Whether you are a novice or an expert manager, this book will be an important addition to your work experience. With every chapter you will find yourself learning something new about your work and, because of it, you will find easier ways to get the job done and success becomes imminent.

Fred Fanning CFM, PMP, LEED GA has had twenty years’ experience in this field of work administration, and his reason for writing Management Principles for Safety and Occupational Health Managers is to impart knowledge gained from that experience rather than facts that can be easily sourced elsewhere, or are likely to be included in training for a management role. Chapter one introduces the ABCs of management, and the subsequent sections cover aspects as broadly based as Risk Management, Public Speaking, and Employees and Emotional Development. Anyone involved in Safety or Occupational Health, or indeed in many other disciplines that entail working as a senior member of staff, would find Management Principles for Safety and Occupational Health Managers a fast-track route to success.

Management Principles for Safety and Occupational Health Managers makes for fascinating and very educational reading. Fred Fanning’s qualifications are impressive: he makes no claim to be a psychologist, but his teachings are rooted in knowing how people tick and why. Knowledge is power, but this is power used not only for readers’ employers, or only indirectly; stress in the workplace leads to mistakes that damage careers, and can even be the cause of marriage break-ups. Fred Fanning gives examples of when accepting a demanding challenge is a plus, and when the stress involved makes it a minus. I ended my reading thinking of the author as “my friend, Fred,” and that is what he will be to any professional seriously intent on climbing the career ladder.