Basic Safety Management Functions

It is generally accepted that a manager s main safety functions are  

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What percentage of all IAQ problems result from insufficient or ineffective ventilation Describe the basic OSHA training requirements for operators of powered industrial trucks. List the key elements of a fleet safety management function. 

In some cases, organizations need more specialized assessments. An assessment of basic safety systems would check to ensure that the organization s basic safety management system is complete and functioning effectively. Other specialized assessments might examine organizational culture or leadership practices. These specialized assessments are beyond the scope of this text. 

All these functions entail the managanent of anployees, materials, machinery, the environment, and processes. These four basic functions of safety management, if integrated into a manager s normal functions, could provide for better management, leadership, and involvement in the safety program and its elements. A positive safety culture can only be obtained by positive proactive leadership. 

For decision support system profiting the continuity of critical infrastructure at renovation of property in a territory affected by disaster is quite basic concept for determination of critical elements, critical processes, critical functions, critical infrastructures and critical technologies in a region. This concept leans on the risk analysis methodology and on actual terms of safety management in a region. It is possible to summarise that this process is determined by ... 

MODEL 3.1 The four basic safety functions of management. 

Consistent with the obligation to ensure that compliance remains in the workplace (and not with Government) new performance based standards require hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control. Such activities are basic and necessary to a functional system of safety management, but the requirement introduces a subjective element into the process which continues to cause problems and disputes as to whether what has been done complies with the legal requirement (Dell, 2001). 

Where loss of control could lead to severe consequences, the integrity of the basic process control system and the protective safeguards must be designed, operated and maintained to a high standard. Industry standards such as ANSI/ISA-S84.01 (1996) and IEC 61508 (2000) address the issues of how to design, operate and maintain safety instrumented systems such as high temperature interlocks to achieve the necessary level of functional safety. The scope of these standards includes hardware, software, human factors and management (HSE 2000). 

The managanent principles that management team members use in daily supervision of production, quality control, or any other operation are the same when managing safety in the workplace. In production, the supervisor plans, organizes, directs, and controls operations to produce a product, while in safety and loss prevention, the supervisor plans, organizes, directs, and controls the safety and loss prevention function in the workplace. Basic management skills utilized in production and quality are transferable to the safety and loss prevention function. 

A synopsis of what appears under Line Organization ES H Functions follows. Note that the functions are assigned to line management. Basically, these functions should be considered as elements of all safety, health, and environmental endeavors, and the auditing practices that are to assess their effectiveness. 

It is required to manage the functional safety in entire safety lifecycle keeping the risk level of potential hazardous events at acceptable level. Thus, it is essential to modernize and improve when required the basic process control system (SCADA and DCS) and the safety-related systems including the alarm system based on experience from their operation and periodical risk assessment. In such process it is essential to consider carefully the human and organizational factors using relevant HRA methods to maintain adequate risk associated with operation of complex industrial hazardous plants. 

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