Accountability, safety

Safety authority is the total influence, rights, and ability of the position to conunand and demand safety actions. Management has ultimate safety authority, and therefore is the only echelon that can effectively initiate, implement, and maintain an effective SMS and create safety culture changes. Leadership has the authority to implement and maintain safety, and also the authority to take necessary remedial measures if there are deviations from accepted safety practices and norms. 

Safety accountability is when a manager is under obligation to ensure that safety responsibility and authority is used to achieve both safety and legal safety standards. Employees too have safety accountabilities in proportion to their safety authority. 

Leadership is accountable to manage an SMS and to provide the necessary infrastructure, environment, and training to enable the system to work. Employees should be held accountable for participating in the system and for following the prescribed standards of the system. 

Management at all levels is then held accountable to rectify the problems identified by the safety system and to ensure that the high-risk acts or conditions highlighted by the system are rectified before a loss event occurs. 

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The number of new chemical entities (NCEs) approved by the U.S. FDA has dropped in the last decade (41) and the average success rate, from the first-in-human studies to registration, is only 11% (42). The lack of drug efficacy and safety account for around 30% of the failures in the clinic (42). Thus, the ability to determine drug safety and efficacy early in the discovery process should help in reducing the failure rate during the costly development studies, and in the end it would produce better and safer drugs (43). 

Dan Petersen is a consultant who has stressed, among other things, the significance of accountability for safety being well established—at all levels. He is the principal presenter in a video and disc-based program titled Safety Accountability. Its message to senior management is this ... 

Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) Seven categories of safety behaviors measured in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) Safety Measurement System (SMS). The BASICs represent behaviors that can lead to crashes. The BASICs are unsafe driving, hours-of-service compliance, driver fitness, controlled substances/alcohol, vehicle maintenance, hazardous materials (HM) compliance, and crash indicator. 

Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and reduce commercial vehicle-related crashes, injuries, and fatalities. 

Safety accountability means being liable to be called on to render an account or be answerable for decisions made, actions, outcomes, and conduct. 

The chief executive officer is responsible for the issuance of the safety and health policy and will demonstrate and accept safety accountability by ... 

Everyone at the company will demonstrate and accept safety accountability by ... 

Should an employee be promoted to another position, or upon recruitment of a new employee, reconfirmation of safety accountabilities shall be done in writing, within a week of the change, and the necessary copies filed. 

If the company is not operating compliantly or safely and is I subjected to an investigative intervention under the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, the FMCSA is going to compare the compands safety management controls to the Safety Management Cycle (see below), and attempt to... 

Having said all of the above, why is filing so important Your Form MCS-150 is basically a detailed profile the FMCSAmain-tains of your operation. The information on it is used by the FMCSA to make decisions about the company. The information is also used to populate the carrier data in the FMCSA s carrier evaluation system, CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability). If you are not updating your MCS-150 regularly it could be causing your scores in the CSA system to be incorrect. 

The FMCSA tracks carrier on-road performance through a component of the Comphance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program called the Safety Measurement System, or SMS. If the SMS shows that the carrier s performance was worse than their peers (as evidenced by higher violation or crash rates), the carrier could be selected for a compliance review. In fact, 48 percent of the carriers selected for compliance reviews during 2009 were because of CSA s prodecessor, SafeStat (as of December 2010 CSA s SMS is being used to select carriers for further enforcement action). 

The Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program is bringing changes to the compliance review process. In the CSA program, compliance reviews will be replaced by focused on-and off-site investigations and comprehensive reviews, which are three of the interventions in the CSA program. 

X Instill safety accountability — Everyone in the company must understand that safety is not a department, person, or policy... 

Health and safety policies may outline objectives in key health and safety areas, such as mobile equipment hazards, plant or noise. They may outline the key occupational health and safety accountabilities of the different levels of staff. 

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]. 

Do you have a safety accountability system in place at your workplace If so, can it be improved ... 

Figure 9-8 Model application for effective accountability. OR OSHA 119, Essentials of Effective Safety Accountability, http //www.cbs.state.or.us/external/osha/educate/train-ing/pages/materials.html, public domain.

Process safety accountabilities should be defined and championed at board level. Board members, senior executives and managers should be held accountable for process safety leadership and performance ... 

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