Organisations risk control strategy

To support the safety culture within the organisation > To ensure the success of any safety programmes and support the safety management system > To ensure compliance with risk control strategies, e.g. fire wardens training to assist in the safe evacuation of a building. 

In order for an organisation to effectively use safe systems of work as part of its risk control strategy it will be necessary to consider the follow ... 

The principles of risk reduction rely on the reduction of risk within the organisation by the implementatin of a loss control programme, whose basic aim is to protect the compan) s assets from wastage caused by accidental loss. Risk reduction strategies take two stages. 

But even a small-scale trial-and-error strategy has to be organised within society. As discussed in the previous section, iimovations are rather improbable and disadvantaged by stractural frameworks. Iimovations depend upon freedom for them to be developed. At the same time safety barriers have to be formulated within which the search process can move freely. For example, possible environmental effects must be anticipated, necessitating controlled release in small increments and retrievability must be ensured. (Quantitative and qualitative restrictions must be imposed so that retrieval and repair options can still be effective if a trial is aborted. This approach is more successful if the persistence and spatial range of a chemical is low than for persistent chemicals like CFCs and PCBs. This requires that limited Teaming spaces or experimentation spaces have to be created intentionally under technical and economic risk considerations. Small increments and a steady increase are to be preferred, accompanied by intensive monitoring of detectable consequences. 

The value of the OEL both in substitution and in control at source appeam to be linked to awareness of chemical risks. At the sectoral level therefore, where OELs exist they are a factor influencing the development and acceptoce of strategies to deal with chemical risks. In the case of employers and suppliers, subsequent outcomes at the level of the workplace are dependant on the extent to which their organisations at sectoral... 

In many projects the conttols of most significance are those which traverse organisational boundaries. In other words where one party (often the software manufacturer) establishes that to mitigate the risk to acceptable levels another party (often the healthcare organisation) is reqnired to put in place certain measures. These external controls provide an ideal starling point for downstream stakeholders to begin to build their assurance strategy on top of the safety work done by the manufacturer. 

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