Safety Through Design

Professor Crowl has an active research program on flammability and reactivity and has published numerous papers in these areas. He serves on several AICHE/CCPS committees, including the Undergraduate Education Committee, the Technical Steering Committee, the Inherent Safety Committee, and the Risk Assessment Committee. He is also a member of the advisory committee for the Institute for Safety Through Design of the National Safety Council. 

Christensen, W., Manuele, F. (1999). Safety through design. Itasea National Safety Council Press. 

Safety professionals should be aware that more recently issued safety standards and guidelines require hazard analysis and risk assessment. Adoption of safety through design concepts is slow-moving, but certain. In time, many more safety professionals will need to become skilled in making hazards analyses and risk assessments. That spells career opportunity. 

But, because of the emergence of what has been called the safety through design movement and the recent publication of safety guidelines and standards that propose or require hazard analysis and risk assessment, special courses need to be crafted to address these additional knowledge need. 

In relation to previous BCSP publications about its examinations, these terms now appear more prominently environmental controls safety through design design of hazard control systems risk management and risk assessment techniques. 

Methods and techniques for achieving safety through design... 

A development at the National Safety Council is another indicator of the awareness that has developed with respect to the societal benefits that can be obtained if hazards are addressed in the design process for the workplace, environmental considerations, and products. In 1995, the Council created an Institute for Safety Through Design, with the following being two of its stated purposes ... 

Many companies have applied the principles of safety through design, and their successes have impacted favorably on productivity and cost efficiency, in addition to safety. Their successes became evident in the work that culminated in the creation of an Institute for Safety Through... 

As the brochure of the Institute for Safety Through Design indicates, if hazards are properly addressed in the design processes, the benefits to society would be... 

The ultimate purpose of applying concepts of safety through design to systems, the workplace, work methods, and products is to achieve safety — that state for which the risks are judged to be acceptable. 

A MODEL POLICY/PROCEDURE STATEMENT ON SAFETY THROUGH DESIGN 319... 

A MODEL PROCEDURE GUIDE FOR SAFETY THROUGH DESIGN... 

Safety professionals are encouraged to venture into safety through design. Opportunities there for accomplishment and recognition are great. 

I served as chair of a committee at the National Safety Council whose efforts resulted in the Council creating an Institute For Safety Through Design. In the exploratory work to establish the basis for a proposal to create the Institute, I needed to collect actual cases where initiatives undertaken by safety professionals to resolve injury and illness problems also resulted in improved productivity and cost efficiency. 

Dr. Stephen Simon has attained notable credentials in safety culture improvement. He developed the Simon Open System (S.O.S) Culture Change Model, which is discussed in a chapter titled Achieving The Necessary Change in the book Safety Through Design [p. 37]. It is noteworthy that, in the title of his survey instrument, he includes both the terms perception and culture. It is known as the S.O.S Culture Perception Survey. 

Simon, Steven I. Achieving the Necessary Culture Change. A Chapter in Safety Through Design. Itasca, IL National Safety Council, 1999. 

Wayne C. Christensen and Fred A. Manuele, Safety through Design, Washington, DC, National Safety Council, 1999. 

Christensen, Wayne C. and Manuele, Fred A., Safety Through Design, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL, 2000. 

Lean Concepts Opportunities for Safety Professionals Applied lean concepts are to eliminate waste, improve efficiency, and lower production costs. Elements of waste that should be addressed in the lean process are the direct and ancillary costs of accidents. This chapter Discusses the origin of lean concepts and how broadly they are being applied Gives examples of lean applications in which hazards and risks were not addressed Comments on the opportunity for effective involvement in lean initiatives by safety professionals and Outlines a unique merging of lean and safety through design concepts. An Addendum offers A Simplified Initial Value Stream Map To Identify Waste (Muda) and Opportunities for Continuous Improvement (Kaizen). 

To develop an understanding of the depth of what is to be undertaken, the chapter Achieving the Necessary Culture Change in Safety Through Design wih help. 

A review of safety through design concepts and procedures... 

We also recognized the cost savings and the superior safety level that resulted from applying safety through design principles, as in the following ... 

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