Safety management, principles

There are many safety management principles. Ten of these principles are as follows [8,10]  

The safety system should be tailored to fit the culture of company/ organization. 

The key to successful line safety performance is management procedures that clearly factor in accountability effectively. 

The function of safety is to discover and define operational errors that cause accidents. 

Causes that result in unsafe behavior can be controlled, identified, and classified. 

There are many principles of safety management, including the following 

The causes that lead to unsafe behavior can be identified, controlled, and classified. Some classifications of the causes are overload, traps, and the worker s or the employee s decision to err. 

The following principles indicate the importance of management s role in safety culture change. The implementation of an SMS must have the full support of the executive management and must be driven by management at all levels. Management must also set the example, and as leaders, participate in the safety management system. 

The management profession has many principles that have developed over the years that are applicable to safety management. When implanenting a near miss incident program, the involvement of all must be sought. The application and practicing of these principles can assist in ensuring system success. 

Managers should visit the workplace as often as they can and interact with employees at the point where the work is done. This is also where the risks lie and these visits and contacts with employees will help reinforce management s visible commitment to the safety system. 

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Implementing sound process safety management principles, and... 

The realization that quality management principles and safety management principles have a remarkable kinship... 

Review the Criteria for Performance Excellence for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and relate the Criteria to safety management principles... 

Since the SMS is management driven, these basic safety management principles are vital for the implementation and maintenance of the system, without which safety culture change would be almost impossible. 

No safety management principle is more applicable to safety culture change than the principle of application. The more the safety culture is affected by the safety system interactions, the more it will be understood, accepted, and practiced. 

During live operational use, the occurrence of incidents may be indicative of a threat to the existing safety case (or notional safety case for older systems). When an ICT incident occurs, several things need to happen to maintain assurance that operations are at an acceptably safe level. This is a good example of how safety management principles have been embedded into the processes established to support service management as recommended by ITIL (OGC 2007). 

Based on the safety management principle of the critical few, the top 20 percent of near misses could hold the potential for 80 percent of the potential accidental losses. 

A Safety Management Principles Relating to Near Miss Incidents... 

The safety management principle of the critical few states that a small number of basic canses conld give rise to the majority of safety problems. A few critical jobs conld be responsible for the majority of injnry-producing accidents occurring and these few critical items (critical safety elements) should receive maximum safety control to minimize their potential for causing (the majority) of problems. 

Safety management principle Reactive, respond when something happens, or is categorised as an unacceptable risk. Proactive, continuously trying to anticipate developments and events. 

Describe at least seven safety management principles. 

The design, eonstruction, operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants are all geared toward the generation of electricity reliably and economically as their primary objective. In accordance with the general safety management principle regarding a safety culture, the safety implications of decisions in all these areas must be borne in mind. 

The following safety management principles (tailored from SRG (1999)) define the scope of a safety management system, provide a framework for the establishment of processes to identify safety shortcomings, and provide assurance that safety levels are being met or improved. These principles must be supported by referring to the applicable procedures that ensure their execution. 

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