Developing a Robust Safety Management System

Safety Management System (SMS) is a sustainable, formal and structured, enterprisewide safety program that appropriately manages safety risk comprehensively of products and the systems that produce them. 

Eigure 4.1 illnstrates the fonr primary parts of an SMS. All parts must work in tandem and be designed and operated together to have an effective SMS. If one or more parts are weak, the entire SMS will be dysfunctional, and the system will collapse. In reality, the four parts overlap quite a bit and therefore impact each other significantly. 

System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment A Practical Approach 

Safety governance The set of management practices and decision rights that administer and control how safety risk is evaluated, reduced, and managed. Safety governance is the set of levers that a company can operate to efficiently manage safety risk. 

Safety culture Is the complete suite of enterprise employee, management, and leadership attitudes toward safety risk. Without a strong safety culture, the system safety program cannot be successful and is just a piece of paper. 

---

If your organization is not prepared to develop a robust safety management system at this time then the Occupational Safety and Health Administration s (OSHA) voluntary protection program (VPP) program is a good stated point. 

---