Safety management processes aspects

Hazards must be considered in the broad context of that definition. Every element within the safety management process should serve to avoid, eliminate, or control the aspects of personal activity or inactivity and the aspects of technology that present a potential for harm or damage and produce risk. 

As part of the contracting and system development process, the government develops the SSMP to guide all system safety aspects of the project. The contractor develops an SSPP that defines how the contractor plans to implement an SSP that meets the objectives and requirements set forth in the contract and the government SSMP. The SSPP should be a direct reflection of the SSMP, with more detail. In essence, the SSMP establishes the safety management process, and the SSPP establishes the safety program execution process by the contractor. Each plan will contain both management and technical aspects of the SSP. 

This model is unique in its description of what constitutes a management system, and its effort to address the planning, organizing, implementing, and control aspects of process safety management systems. 

Common sense and the OSHA Chemical Process Safety Management Law requires an audit of compliance to the Management of Change. Periodic review and documentation of a sites activities in managing aspects of personnel and process safety is often a part of an organization s culture. A good audit can measure the actual versus intended effectiveness of various programs. 

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Several other pertinent aspects of Process Safety Management are not directly addressed by the OSHA or EPA standards. They are listed in the Table 17.II, with pertinent references. 

Again, safety here is the outcome of an active process, with engagement positioned as the cooperation needed for aspects of its creation. Safety engagement has therefore become part of the management process to ensure safety within the workforce. But whilst engagement is a very easy term to use, safety committees can be readily established, often enhanced with the lure of chocolate biscuits and tea to encourage attendance, the actual creation and enactment of engagement out on the site as part of an everyday reality can be much more complex. 

Existing coal mine safety production management system focused on a theoretical level, (Andrew Hopkins 1999) focused on the structures of the framework, the lack of safety production management system implemented in the production process, every aspect of the management process, methods, procedures, initiatives. 

Organizational behavior is the quality of the safety management system, namely, system files and their implementation status which run a direct result of habitual behavior of the members of the organization. The run behavior of organizational behavior is the root cause of the accident. From the point of view of the coal mine roof accident, organizational behavior errors include two aspects, one is roof safety procedures are not perfect, the other is a point of order problems in the implementation process. 

Sometimes companies need to outsource various aspects of process safety management, such as maintenance. The initial decision to contract out such activities as well as the choice to change service providers should be considered an OCM. More information regarding the initial decision to outsource process safety functions is covered in Chapter 7. 

It must be recognized that the Safety Lifecycle and associated Safety Instrumented Systems need to be part of an overall Process Safety Management System (PSM) for the entire plant. PSM can be defined as a program or set of activities involving the application of management principles and analyses to ensure the overall process safety of process plants. PSM, therefore, covers aU aspects of process safety, not just functional safety. 

It has proved an advantage that the safety management system encompasses the aspects of process and plant safety, occupational safety and protection of the environment this is the holistic approach (cf. [7]). 

The health and safety culture of an organization is an important factor in ensuring the effectiveness of risk control. The health and safety management system is an important influence on the safety culture, which in turn impacts on the effectiveness of the health and safety management system. Measuring aspects of the safety culture therefore forms part of the overall process of measuring health and safety performance. (P-14)... 

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