Safety management benchmarking

However, reference to enforcement or punishment is almost always found to be lacking within the voice of corporate safety management. Despite the presence of prohibitions which clearly establish benchmarks for violation, further clarification of what enforcement is in place or what punishment will be meted out for lack of compliance is often totally missing. Instead, this corporate voice operates in a reality where there is no need for punishment... 

In addition to establishing joint working groups to address integrated safety management issue, we should begin to benchmark the safety authorization basis at selected Russian facilities. 

The ultimate program purpose is the assurance of safe operation at Russian nuclear materials industrial enterprises and sites associated with the treatment, storage, and disposition of excess HEU and Pu derived from various origins, including dismantled nuclear weapons. Efforts to benchmark safety management at select Russian defense fuel cycle facilities will be incorporated into all aspects of the... 

Safety performance measures provide data indicating the status of safety activities (Training Resources and Data Exchange (TRADE) 1995,1-36). Comparisons between performance measures and benchmarks or organizational goals allow the safety manager to make decisions and take appropriate action. The key difference between performance measures and safety metrics is that performance measures evaluate the safety process, and safety metrics are the standards of measurement (such as accident rates). A series of safety metrics makes up a safety performance measure. 

When benchmarking safety performance, the safety manager identifies the organizations that can be considered the leaders in terms of various safety performances. One should keep in mind that while one organization can be considered the best in terms of lost workday cases, another company can be considered the best in another aspect of the safety program. The overall purpose and intent of benchmarking can be summarized as the (Holloway, Lewis, and Mallory 1995, 128) ... 

In many companies, such safety performance variables are found internally through accident reporting and safety recordkeeping. The safety manager needs to identify those measures that are key to safety performance success. The key is to be clear about the needs and what it is important to improve. Overall, there are four different types of benchmarking that a safety manager can use internal, functional, competitive, and generic (Holloway, Lewis, and Mallory 1995,129-30). 

Benchmarking uses total quality management principles to integrate safety management techniques, existing improvement efforts and technical tools into a disciplined... 

In particular, the recently issued American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS) Standard, ANSI ZIO-2005, provides a new national benchmark for what constitutes an effective OHSMS and is the work product of a broad cross-section of stakeholders. 

ANSI/AIHA ZlO-2005. Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems standard. ZIO sets a benchmark provision requiring that processes be in place To identify and take appropriate steps to prevent or otherwise control hazards and reduce risks associated with new processes or operations at the design stage. 

The methods used include providing a learning environment and effective informal issue communication, independent analysis. Red Teams (critical independent reviewers), management benchmarking, inspections, safety performance audits, on-site presence, intensive bottom-up reporting, and most of all assuring personal responsibility and accountability. 

Safety Planning Policy Development Organizational Design Hazard Identification Competence Management Risk Management Benchmarking... 

The realisation must surface from within the industry that the tenets of effective health and safety management are identical to those of exemplary project management. The current themes of partnering, benchmarking, teamwork, competence and resourcing remain recycled versions of good practice, and serve to remind us of the need to touch base with first principles. 

Environmental stewardship, with quality, health and safety, are all definable processes that can yield immense benefits from management systems. Academia, owner and contractor companies and suppliers will be judged not only on the value they deliver but also on their ability to protect and improve the world. No longer are chemical engineers just working on a finite task they must broaden their view and set the benchmark for global responsibility. 

HIT is finding an increasing role in healthcare dehvery and no longer is its apph-cation limited to simple order entry. Outside of medication management the evidence for HIT playing an active role in the reduction of risk is lacking and much more research is required [39]. This is hampered by no obvious or consistent benchmark by which to measure these benefits. Nevertheless, the prospect of HIT better informing care delivery makes it likely that in the near future improvements in patient safety will be achieved. The US Office of the National Coordinator for... 

Safety as PPE is often the most convenient example, manifestation and crystallisation of safety within the common site repertoire. This could be due to the high visibility of the artefacts of PPE, which make it easily and quickly assessable in terms of safety compliance. No special knowledge or skills are required to ascertain whether people are wearing their basic PPE, which therefore makes it a straightforward assessment of safety in practice. This provides management with a simple measure of safety which can be employed as a benchmark for enforcement, which may not be as personally or professionally threatening as, for example, being able to assess the safety of a complex scaffold erection. 

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