Safety expectation setting procedures

One of the key objectives associated with providing risk and hazard information is to help set realistic safety expectations. That is, the provision of safety and hazard information can form a realistic safety preview. Chapter 3 describes four different types of job applicant and described how the four types vary in terms of safety expectations and previous job experience. Job applicants classified as school leaver or career transition applicants will have the least amount of relevant job experience and are likely to have the most unrealistic safety expectations. Clearly, safety expectation setting procedures will be of most benefit to those job applicants. However, it would be unwise to forgo the use of a realistic safety preview, based on the assumption that the job applicant, because of their previous experience, would not benefit from the process. Tables 3.1 and 3.2, in Chap. 3, show that there are safety risks associated with aU job applicants, including career-focused applicants, and these can be reduced by providing a realistic safety preview. Thus, it is... 

In the endeavor to control standards in the areas of quality, safety, conduct of operations, instrument accuracy, and so on the balance of risk and performance of the mission and project performance can get skewed. Risk for doing work through work packages, procedures, and instructions under a certain set of standards can always change to higher expectations, causing additional funding and effort than estimated to meet the objectives... 

All management personnel are expected to follow and enforce the safety and health policies and procedures the company has set forth. They should be held both physically and financially accountable for their safety and health practice performance as well as the performance of those they supervise. Figure 2.5 shows a management accountability statement. 

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