Objectives, system safety program

Briefly explain a system safety program and its objectives. 

System Safety Program Objective To reduce the risk of a given hazard or set of hazards to its lowest possible level of acceptance (as determined by management) without significant sacrifice of system effectiveness, operating schedules, or cost. 

System Safety Tasks Those activities, such as hazard analysis, associated with the system safety engineering discipline that are performed to accomplish the system safety program objective. 

The aim of this section is to describe the company s safety governance structure and processes and specifically its stated and well-articulated safety policy and philosophy. This section should also clearly state the objectives of the system safety program. Who and how safety decisions are approved needs to be overtly declared this so that all can understand that safety decisions are made consciously and not by default or inaction. Safety decision making needs to be part of the fabric of company operations and not just an afterthought or only check the box compliance. This section also describes the process and periodicity of updating the SMS and republishing the SSPP. 

The system safety requirements paragraph discusses program objectives, general design requirements, the system safety precedence (safety precedence sequence), and risk assessment descriptions of both severity and probability categories (Tables 3-1 and 3-2). 

Develop a clear reason for having a system safety effort within the organization and objectives for the program. 

PSM or RMP audits have multiple objectives. Most important is the assurance an audit brings or the adequacy of implementation of the particular program. Specifically, the audit measures program effectiveness, identifies deficiencies, and verifies correction of previously identified deficiencies. The audit also provides management with a status assessment and may recommend improvements and identify good practices. The material in this section is based on a portion of the content of a Nuclear QA Certification Course taught at Sandia National Laboratories and several companies, the ASQ Nuclear Auditor Training Manual (ASQ 1986), the System Safety Analysis Handbook (Stephans and Talso 1997), and the OSHA Inspection Manual (U.S. Department of Labor 1994). 

Likewise, compliance is not your only responsibility, but through compliance you can develop the necessary support systems that will help move your entire safety program forward and achieve the goals and objectives you have established. 

In the first example, the system safety engineer has been asked to assist in the industrial safety accident prevention program. By helping identify those fault areas in the program where, if proper consideration is not provided, certain events could jeopardize the successful achievement of the primary objective (i.e., no... 

The ultimate goal of any safety program or process, whether it is incentive-based, performance-based, or a management-driven system, must be to create a system that embraces specific goals and objectives. We will discuss goals and objectives in more detail in Chapter 5. 

The purpose of an accountability system is to help employees understand how critical their role is, and to help them understand what to do to take responsibility for their performance and actions. In the present context, accountability makes sure that your safety program is not just a paper program, a book or manual that is developed and then sits on the bookshelf collecting dust, with no real purpose in achieving its objectives. The following sections will help you assess and clearly define your safety accountability [1]. 

Enforcement is like developing objectives. It should be based on making sure that employees know what is expected of them regarding published and communicated safety rules. In addition, it lets employees know how they are expected to work in relation to the goals of the organization s safety program. The best way is to use employee participation as described in Chapter 7 in the development of the enforcement system [3]. 

There are a number of areas where written safety program development can occur that will be beneficial to school system employees. These areas include both regulated and nonregulated areas. The objective will be to evaluate all of the risks that impact a given school and develop the appropriate written programs to protect students, faculty, staff, and visitors. 

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