Improving Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

One could argue that superior OSHA incident rates are not absolutely indicative as performance measures, and they are not. Some of those companies with superior OSHA statistical records are faced with the dilemma of having occasional serious injuries and fatalities. That subject is discussed in Chapter 8, Improving Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention. ... 

IMPROVING SERIOUS INJURY AND FATALITY PREVENTION Table 8.6 Differences in Fatality Categories... 

Chapter 8— Improving Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention — should be considered a primary resource for both situations as in item 1 and any situation in between. 

In Chapter 8, Improving Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention, this author wrote that risk assessments should be established as the core of an occupational risk management system. So, also, should risk assessment be a major element in a systemic causation model. 

A few prominent writers would have you believe that behavior modification, training, and leadership (consisting largely of what is referred to in OSHA literature as administrative controls) are almost the entirety of the practice of safety. But, events of the recent past indicate that several of the big hitters in behavior-based safety have revised their positions and now talk and write about taking a systems approach to safety management (see Chapter 8, Improving Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention ). 

Chapter 8 on improving serious injury and fatality prevention... 

A Systemic Sociotechnical Model for an Operational Risk Management System is provided in the chapter on Improving Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention. Some will consider it radical. 

Data should be developed that links serious injury and fatality prevention to the need for the installation of new systems or the improvement in existing systems with respect to ... 

S.3.7.3 Consequences of Failures There are many consequences of corrosion-based failures ranging from minor failures of equipment, loss of productivity, minor injuries to personnel, and as serious as loss of lives. Failure analysis is the conventional method of relating a failure to its consequences as well as the lessons learned from the failure along with the necessary steps and precautions to be taken to avoid the future occurrence of similar failure. Failures may range from modest cost of replacing a failed component to the possible destruction of a piece of equipment and fatalities. The consequences of a failure determine the priorities of the maintenance or improvements in design to prevent future failures of a similar nature and degree. 

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