Principle of Setting Safety Objectives

The principle of setting safety objectives is The speed, efficiency, and motivation to carry out safety work are increased if the work is directed toward preset safety objectives. 

This means that management must know what they want and determine what work is necessary to achieve the implementation of the safety management system. Safety responsibility must be assigned and the work relationship must be clearly defined to achieve the safety objectives. The safety managanent system must have a set of standards, targets, and timelines. Expectations must be set for the number of employees to be trained and the number of inspections to be carried out, among other activities. Some objectives could be  

Planned number of safety and health representatives appointed 

An objective for the implementation of the safety system should also be set. This could include writing the standards, review of the standards, and setting the time frame for implementation of each standard. 

The introduction of a near miss incident reporting system will normally be met with resistance and skepticism by the workforce. This will be harder to overcome if discipline was levered when near miss incidents were reported in the past. Employees will resist this change because of a number of reasons discussed later in this book. 

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