Safety Management System Organization

Motivating Senior Leaders to Take Safety Seriously 

Run the calculations of how much accidents cost in lost time, workers compensation, insurance costs, lost product, schedule slip, lawsuits, inefficient use of resources, downtime, etc. See Section 14.3 for more details. 

Use your safety calculations to lower insurance costs. Show them to your insurance carrier, along with all the documentation that indicates how safety has been institutionalized. 

Bring the company lawyer in to explain how a better safety record and a systematic approach to safety will protect the company from employee, community, and governmental lawsuits. 

A good safety program (including appropriate documentation) will make government oversight a breeze. And that means less money to spend on government audits. 

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Implement safety management systems. Organizations should develop and impl ent appropriate safety management systems designed to collect, analyze, report, and learn from safety-compromising behavior or incidents. 

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. 

In its 1989 book. Guidelines for Technical Management of Chemical Process Safety, CCPS identifies 22 characteristics of a management system, organized to reflect four key activities planning, organizing, implementing, and control-... 

Both internal and external metrics are valuable. Internal metrics provide information to those throughout the organization with the information needed to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the process safety management system. External metrics allow outside stakeholders to evaluate the organization s performance and to hold those within the organization accountable for unacceptable performance, (See Chapter 7 for a discussion on accountability.)... 

Parallel to the development of ISO 14001 1996 - Environmental Management Systems - several organizations developed guides, draft specifications, and requirements for occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMSs). Most of this development has been done by management system registrars with the expectation that an OHSMS be accepted and issued by a national or internationally accredited standards body, that is, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), British Standards, and so on. 

ISO 05a] ISO 22000, International Standard. ISO 22000, Food safety management systems Requirements for any organization in the food chain, 1 st ed., September 2005. 

In my view, realistic safety information should form a specific section in a job description. Figure 3.1 is an example of what a safety section in a job description might look like. The acmal information in the safety section of a job description should be derived from a careful analysis of the job, from internal accident data associated with the job, and from global accident trends associated with the job. For the information to help with expectation setting, it needs to be as realistic (accurate) as possible. Furthermore, the organization should not distort or adjust the ratings based on their expectations of how safety management systems are likely to reduce the risks. 

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. 

The paramount goal of a safety management system audit is to influence the organization s culture concerning safety—that is, its system of... 

A management that wants to achieve a culture change is best served if the deficiencies noted and the proposals for improvement made in audit reports principally effect safety management systems. Successes of safety audits are determined by how they affect the organization s culture. (See Chapter 22, On Safety, Health, and Environmental Audits. )... 

It makes sense to carry out the safety tasks according to an established procedural framework, which together with the corresponding management organization (hierarchy with clear responsibilities) constitutes a safety management system (cf. [7]). The demonstration that such a safety management system has been implemented is required by the Major Accident Ordinance [8]. 

This commitment, however, involves more than a cursory statement to promote safety at all costs. It involves committing the organization, its board of directors, managers, and employees to a long-term, ongoing, structured process aligned to the constant identification and elimination of workplace risks, which can only be achieved by the implementation and maintenance of a world s best-practice safety management system (SMS). 

The safety and health of employees at the workplace is the ultimate responsibility of the management of the organization. Even though it is generally accepted that all share a role in safety, the ultimate accountability lies with all levels of the leadership. With this in mind, the implementation of a safety management system with the intent of changing the safety culture can only be successful if initiated, led, and supported by all management. 

An audit objectively, and in detail, evaluates an organization s occupational health and safety management system, identifying areas of strength and weakness, and supports a structured continuous improvement approach going forward. (McKinnon, 2012a, p. 89)... 

Level 1—the key elements of the health and safety management system the management arrangements (including plans and objectives) necessary to organize, plan, control and monitor the design and implementation of RCSs. 

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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