Safety Risk Management Office

FIGURE12.8 Accreditation approval process. (From National for Rail Safety Accreditation 

Package Guidelines, New South Wales, Australia, April 1999 with 2005 updates. Version 2.0, The Rail Safety Regulations Panel Australia.) 

The other function of the office is to track, trend, and analyze all industry safety and risk data and maintain current risk profiles of industry organizations. The office is responsible for conducting industry-level risk assessments and determining the efficacy of current safety regulations and the accreditation process. Advanced research and new approaches to safety oversight or SMS implementation are also developed in this office. In other words, this office can be viewed as a continuous safety improvement office. Information from this office should feed back into the other safety offices reporting to the executive director. 

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Martin has a unique experience in both fire and heaith and safety management. He has nearly 30 years experience in the iocai authority Fire service and reached the rank of Assistant Chief Fire Officer before retiring in 2003. in 1998, Martin was appointed to Her Majesty s Fire Service inspectorate. As Principai Heaith and Safety Advisor, he authored and/or edited all national fire service guidance and ied the deveiopment of a suite of Home Office publications on Heaith and Safety for the Fire Service. He has an excellent reputation here and abroad where he lectures on health and safety risk management... 

Health and Safety Code Risk Management and Prevention Program Guidance, Chapt. 6.95, Art. 2, Sect. 25534(1), State of California, Governor s Office of Emeigency Services, Sacramento, Calif., 1988. 

Health and Safety Executive. Management of risk when planning work the right priorities. Head office for HSE is Merseyside, UK. http //www.hse.gov.uk/construction/lwit/assets/down-loads/hierarchy-risk-controls.pdf... 

The Clean Air Act is the one that covers process safety. The pertinent rule is referred to as the Risk Management Program and is administered by the Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO), the EPA office that administers the Risk Management Plan (RMP). 

If the utilization or storage of the free material is likely to pose any substantive risk to personnel or property, the safety department and the risk management (insurance) office must be informed prior to completion of the agreement to accept the material, to allow time for a determination of whether the risks are acceptable or not, if adequate facilities are available, and to ensure that the proposed research has been reviewed for health and safety implications. 

Kaye, R., Crowley, J., Medical Device Use-Safety Incorporating Human Factors Engineering into Risk Management, CDRH, Office of Health and Industry Programs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., 2000. 

The Office of Hazards Materials Safety in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in the U.S. Department of Transportation (2005), has issued Risk Management Definitions from which the following definition is taken. 

Andrew Furness is a charismatic safety professionai with over 25 years experience in both fire safety and risk management and heaith and safety fieids. As a Fire Safety Enforcing Officer for a iocai Fire Authority his roie was changed when he became the Heaith Safety Advisor to the Fire Brigade in Buckinghamshire. 

In anticipation of the introduction of risk management requirements under 1EC80001 (or in case of expansion of the scope of the Medical Devices Directive), the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) Chnical Safety Group commenced creating and training a network of Trust based Clinical Safety Officers to assist in the safety management tasks associated with new systems deployment. 

Assessment, 1996 Cabinet Office, 2002 British Standards Institute, 1996 Standards Australia, 1999 Health and Safety Executive, 2001 Institute of Risk Management, 2002 National Infrastructure Protection Centre, 2002), but there are three essential steps in all these frameworks. First, the threats faced by an organisation and their possible consequences are identified and catalogued. Second, risk levels are calculated for each threat by assessing the likelihood and the severity of the harmful consequences or outcomes that might result. Third, these risk levels are compared to a predetermined criteria or level of acceptability, and unacceptable risks are selected for action or treatment. The process is then to be repeated as an ongoing cycle. 

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