Safety management programmes

Emergency preparedness planning for emergencies is stated to be an essential part of our safety management programme , and reference is made to major exercises carried out at the two largest sites (Danville, USA and Castleford, UK) in 1998. 

Audience responses to these safety management programmes -the worker above being a prime example - are of critical importance to their impact, as this site manager said ... 

Many large contractors have distilled their site rules into professionally printed booklets to be distributed on induction, supported by posters to be put up around site. These documentary artefacts of safety are produced within a corporate rather than a site context, and are often positioned as a part of wider organisational safety management systems and safety management programmes. Such site safety guides often present the rules through the dichotomy of ... 

However, it is maturity of thinking that is critical here, and the most recent developments of safety engagement in the form of zero target safety management programmes have perhaps not sufficiently considered these wider issues of how safety works in practice - and so counting down to zero may not be as simply as we may think. 

More comprehensive and nationwide studies on all accidents are clearly needed, at least in Finland. Therefore, support can be found for the recommendation that safety-conscious workplaces should also include home and leisure-time accidents in their risk prevention and safety management programmes, as some companies say they do (Mottel et al. 1995). Assessment and auditing systems should also more... 

The success of a health and safety management programme will depend on how functions are perceived by management and how responsibility for health and safety is delegated throughout an oiganization. Responsibility for managing health and safety requires... 

Companies should actively engage with others within their sector and elsewhere to share good practice and information on process safety incidents that may benefit others. Companies should have mechanisms and arrangements in place to incorporate learning from others within their process safety management programmes ... 

ASD-lOO-SSE-1 Rev 7D, NAS Modernisation System Safety Management Programme, US Dept of Transportation, FAA. 

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