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A trivial example is to batten down the hatches when bad weather is approaching. While this expression has its origin in the navy, many people living on land (in a tornado zone, for instance) or on an oil rig have also learned the value of preparing for a storm. In the financial world, proactive safety management... 

Health and Safety legislation has a direct effect on the responsibility, authority, accountability and liability towards the safety management approach of any operator. It explicitly requires the operator to assess and manage the risk (which includes technical airworthiness risk) during the lifetime of the product/facility. This proactive approach is the backbone of current harmonised European Safety, Health and Enviromnental Standards and Regulations the term reasonably practicable enshrined in this act is interpreted as a balance between risk and cost. 

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Although reviewing the OSHA log is a good tool for auditing a management system, it is only one of many tools that can be used. Such an approach takes only a proactive look at the management system once a safety issue has occurred. Ideally, a company should try to be proactive in their approach [9]. 

As a part of an effective Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) program, a Job Safety Analysis (JSA) has proved to be an effective accident and occupational illness prevention tool in many industries. The JSA, also known as a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), is a safety management tool in which the risks or hazards of a specific job in the workplace are identified and measures to eliminate or control those hazards are determined and implemented. Most safety programs are considered reactive, an action in response to an incident. A JSA is considered a proactive approach to workplace safety. A JSA is a process of systematically evaluating certain jobs, identifying the hazards or potential hazard associated with each step of the job, and finding effective control measures to eliminate or reduce the risk of hazards and make the workplace as safe as possible, before those hazards have a chance to become accidents. 

Safety management attempts to deal with these common root causes by emphasising a proactive approach prevention, rather than reacting to harm once it has occurred. It is essential that a management system has procedures in place to identify and manage major hazards. Hazard management should consider methods of prevention, detection, control and mitigation to reduce the risks to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). 

Safety management. Make a commitment to the adoption of an explicit, proactive approach to systematic safety management. 

Rationale. Clearly defined activities and milestones (both during the development lifecycle as well as operational apphcation) are essential requirements for a proactive approach to safety management. 

Regulatory authorities, operators and maintainers need to enforce a proactive approach to safety, whereby the safety management system not only ensures that the intended level of safety remains intact, but also that trends are monitored and used to make improvements before an accident or incident occurs. Trends can be monitored via internal programmes such as FRAC AS/DRACAS (see Appendix A) as well as via data-sharing programmes such as Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), Aviation Safety Action Partnerships (ASAP) and accident databases. 

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