Setting Safety Objectives

People normally pay most interest to what the CEO wants them to pay interest to. If this happens to be safety, safety will get their attention. Executive leadership, commitment, and a desire to improve the work standards and reduce high-risk behavior and high-risk conditions lead to better safety, production, and higher quahty standards. Only executives can set safety objectives that can be cascaded down to lower levels within the organization, and which will eventually bring about a change in the safety culmre. 

The principle of setting safety objectives is The speed, efficiency, and motivation to carry out safety work are increased if the work is directed toward preset safety objectives. 

Examine accident and injury statistics and set safety objectives. 

Managing Directors, General Managers and certain Directors have the responsibility for the implementation and maintenance of measures designed to achieve this Policy. This will include setting safety objectives with standards, against which performance will be monitored. 

It is the responsibility of the regulatory body to set safety objectives and standards, and to monitor and enforce them within die established l slative and statutory framework. No other responsibility is to jeardize or conflict with safety, its prime mission. 

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Setting safety objectives is when a manager determines what safety results he/she desires. This would include incorporating a formal near miss incident program (NEMIRR) into the safety systan. One objective for the organization could be the reporting of one near miss incident per anployee per month. Another objective, for example, would be for at least 90 percent of all near miss incidents to be actioned and rectified each month. 

Safety objectives are fixed for every nuclear installation. These objectives should be measurable, both qualitatively and quantitatively, and they should include prevention of severe accidents and mitigation of the consequences, should prevention fail, as it has been clearly stated in a series of IAEA INSAG reports. When setting safety objectives, other factors (notably non-fatal health effects) should also be taken into account, as learned from the historical severe accidents. 

The term objectives is not defined in ISO 8402 but in ISO/DIS 9000 2000 (soon to replace ISO 8402) quality objectives are defined in ISO 9004 as key elements of quality such as fitness of use, performance, safety, and reliability. It also mentions the calculation and evaluation of costs associated with all quality objectives. It goes on to suggest that specific quality objectives be documented and be consistent with quality policy as well as other objectives of the organization. You can then go on to set new objectives. 

Babrauskas, V. and Simonson, M. Fire behaviour of plastic parts in electrical appliances Standards versus required fire safety objectives. Fire Mater. 2007, 31, 83-96. Cite papers from Fire and Materials conferences and other TV set fire papers. 

This means that management must know what they want and determine what work is necessary to achieve the implementation of the safety management system. Safety responsibility must be assigned and the work relationship must be clearly defined to achieve the safety objectives. The safety managanent system must have a set of standards, targets, and timelines. Expectations must be set for the number of employees to be trained and the number of inspections to be carried out, among other activities. Some objectives could be ... 

Safety objectives must be set, and people must know what their authority within the safety management system is. Ownership of a segment of the safety system can help lead to participation and safety success. All employees, irrespective of their standing, should be given the ability (authority) to participate actively in the safety management system. This participation is a key component of safety culture change. 

The workforce will only become interested if management shows an interest in the safety results achieved by them individually and as a group. Management must set the safety trend and help them achieve safety objectives. 

Setting and communicating clear safety objectives within the safety system for their department... 

All safety objectives should be specific, measurable, attainable, time bound, and relevant to the end goal. Objectives such as injury-free or accident-free do not meet these requirements, nor do objectives such as zero injuries and zero harm. Safety objectives must be reasonable, as achievement of set objectives creates motivation to achieve even greater heights. Objectives such as injury-free can never be realistically achieved and lead to nonachievement and disappointment rather than the desired inspiration of goal attainment. 

Develop apolicy statement for safety and health and set safety system objectives Bring operations in line with applicable legislation and acceptable standards... 

It is predictive and target setting (i.e. it determines the system s safety objectives without any architectural limitations). It should be used to identify design precautions necessary to ensure independence, to determine the required software level and to avoid common mode and cascade failures (see Chapters 6-8). 

Although system architectural features (e.g., redundancy, monitoring and partitioning) are used to help prove the safety objectives set in the Functional Hazard Analysis (see Table 3.3), it is practically impossible to guarantee the correctness and completeness of requirements definition or design implementation. 

It is the responsibility of the regulatory body to set the detailed safety objectives and standards and to... 

On the other hand, if the Argument / Evidence cannot be deduced from observable attributes of an output itself, but is related only to the process, then it should be considered to be Backing - for example it would be impossible to deduce from a set of Safety Objectives that they had been developed by a team with Appropriate expertise - see Figure A.6 below. 

Set documented objectives based on the priorities developed with respect to the hazards and risks identified and the shortcomings found in the safety and health management system (Section 4.3). 

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