Safety matrix audits

In negotiating to purchase raw materials, BASF uses a safety matrix to evaluate the dangers posed by their physical and chemical properties. Suppliers are also subject to environmental and safety audits by BASF employees to minimize pollution and to assure their use of safety standards are in accordance with Responsible Care. The company s environmental criteria are supplemented with minimum social standards that suppliers are expected to meet, including the prohibition of child labor and the use of forced or bonded workers. 

The Haddon matrix, the above formula, and also the five pillars of the 2004 World report illustrate clearly that road safety covers an immense area from land-use planning to transport and infrastructural planning, from road design to the execution of road audits, from legislation for speeds, alcohol, drugs and police enforcement of... 

The New Zealand Transport Agency updated its Road Safety Audit procedures to better embed the safe system approach in 2013. The procedure includes specific sections on the safe system , a risk assessment matrix that includes a focus on fatal and serious injuries, and an electronic report format for tracking audit responses. 

The issues raised in a road safety assessment could simply be ranked as iow , medium or high risk. An alternative method would be to use a risk assessment matrix such as that produced in the Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT) Road Safety Audit guidelines and shown in Figure 10.13. 

Gloucestershire County Council requires that Road Safety Audits undertaken in its area include a risk assessment according to the IHT guidelines matrix. This is intended to assist the Project Sponsor in deciding whether the recommendation should be implemented. 

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