Safety Management System design organisation

While OHSAS 18001 has not been designated as a British Standard it has been produced by the British Standards Institution (BSI) to enable external validation of an organisation s safety management system to be achieved. 

In the previous chapters the purposes of near miss reporting have been outlined and a framework of designing such a safety management tool has been presented. The importance of human behaviour as a dominant factor in incident sequences was stressed by developing a system failure classification scheme largely based on a theoretical model of operator behaviour. Also an overview was given of the organisational factors necessary for a successful implementation of a NMMS. 

If an organisation for one or more of the above reasons decides to introduce or improve a near miss reporting system it will face two types of problems- Firstly, how to (re)design such a reporting system to become an effective and efficient safety management tool, and secondly, how to introduce and maintain it, with an emphasis on user acceptance and system support. 

Design Organisations are at the heart of safety because the design solution determines the manner in which the system is operated and maintained. There are many design deficiencies which require constant management and reevaluation in the Continuing Airworthiness, for instance ... 

The (OHSAS) specification gives requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH S) management system, to enable an organisation to control its OH S risks and improve its performance. It does not state specific OH S performance criteria, nor does it give detailed specifications for the design of a management system. 

GLP is a quality system of management controls for laboratories and research organisations involved in nonclinical studies conducted for the assessment of the safety of chemicals to humans, animals and the environment it is designed to ensure the consistency and reliability of results, and specifies the manner in which studies are to be planned, performed, monitored, recorded, reported and archived. 

Services, the principal Air Traffic Control organisation in the UK, managing Human Factors staff and contractors. He extended the traditional HF work in NATS to consider human error and various safety aspects of new and existing projects and systems, as well as feeding more human factors into the design of new systems. His most recent move has been to Eurocontrol, in Brussels and Paris, working on a number of projects concerned with the future automation tools aimed for 2005 onwards. He has published two textbooks (on task analysis and human reliability assessment) and various articles. 

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