System safety promotion

L. Bodsberg and O. Ingstad, Technical and Human Implications of Automatic Safety Systems, Paper presented at Sixth International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries, Oslo, Norway, 1989. 

Baciu, Alina, Kathleen Stratton, and Sheila R Burke, eds. The Future of Drug Safety Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public. Washington, D.C. National Academies Press, 2007. The FDA asked the Institute of Medicine to evaluate the drug safety system. This report comes from the panel... 

Huff, J. E, A General Approach to the Sizing of Emergency Pressure Relief Systems, Reprints of Int. Symp. on Loss Prev. and Safety Promotion in the Process Ind., Heidelberg, Germany, 1977, p. IV 223, DECHEMA, Frankfurt (1977). 

A proactive approach for medicahon safety promotes a nonpunitive culture, wherein errors and near misses can be reported and safety improved. Prac-tihoners need to be assured by their organization that reporting errors is encouraged, individuals will not be punished for system failures, and improvements will be made to prevent future errors. 

U. Hesener and H.G. Schecker, ExTrA An expert system for the safety analysis of drying plants. Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in Process Industries. H.J. Pasman, O. Fredholm, and A. Jacobsson (eds.), Vol. 11, pp. 643-653, Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1995). 

To promote learning about incident investigation, Ferry wrote extensively about and suggested inquiry into System Safety, Change Analysis, The MORT Process, Multilinear Events Sequencing, and D. A. Weaver s Technic of Operations Review. 

System safety concepts promote the establishment of policies and procedures that are to achieve an effective, orderly and continuous hazards management process for the design, development, installation, and maintenance, of all facilities, materials, hardware, equipment, tooling, and products, and for their eventual disposal. 

Another evolving approach to facility system safety is the HazOps effort being developed by the chemical industry. This effort is being promoted by individual chemical and petrochemical companies and by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 

In summary, the broad HazOp effort of the chemical industry is a facility system safety effort. It is one of the first such efforts to originate in the private sector. A sharing of information between the HazOp advocates and those promoting facility system safety should be mutually beneficial. 

System Safety professionals shall be dignified and modest in describing their work and merit, and shall avoid any statement or act tending to promote their own interests at the expense of the integrity, honor and dignity of the profession. 

Quality improves (in this case, safety results) as deviation from set standards (variance) decreases. Therefore, work processes and systems which promote continuous improvement, eliminate defects, and ensure that every aspect of the business is aligned to meet or exceed customer needs, are put in place. 

An international, nonprofit organization of approximately 1600 members (in 2003) in the United States and throughout 20 countries around the world. The SSS is dedicated to the safety of systems, products, and services. Originally organized in 1962, it was incorporated in 1973 and has its headquarters in the Washington, DC area. Active chapters are organized to promote the system safety philosophy and further professional development. Their journal, Hazard Prevention, is published on a quarterly basis and features articles on current developments in the system safety profession. 

Systems thinking promotes innovations that bridge societal/market needs and health, safety, and environmental impacts Feedstocks are diversified and renewable to avoid resource depletion Renewable carbon sources (e.g., biomass (e.g., plants, trees, etc.) converted to sugars or other simpler molecules. 

At the national level it might be useful to utilise EuroSafe much more in the future, which also records information about accidents in private life (EuroSafe 2006). EuroSafe, the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, is a network of injury prevention champions dedicated to making Europe a safer place. Occupational health care systems in workplaces could have the proper expertise to utilise the systems provided by EuroSafe. Though there currently exists a national web portal of HLA in Finland (TapaturmaportaaU 2008), the significance of HLA, especially at work places, needs a new type of statistics and effective media to communicate the real, total accident figures. This would support holistic and consistent safety culture. 

The response of senior company officers who are concerned to avoid personal liability is to set in place management systems which promote workplace health and safety and to audit these systems to ensure that they are working as well as possible. Directors and managers who have set up such systems can be reasonably sure that they have exercised due diligence and that they could not be held personally liable in the event that a worker was killed or injured or, worse, that some disaster resulted in more widespread death and injury. 

In this chapter we will consider the internal systems BR put in place in compliance with the legislation and will assess how these regulatory systems operated. The research tried to discern how much employees knew about the company s own systems, rules, and procedures for health and safety. Attention was paid to staff knowledge and perceptions of BR s written policies and to the company s systems for promoting the health and safety of the workforce. In particular it focused on the checks that existed for ensuring that the policies were implemented and on the organizational structures in place for the promotion, enforcement, and review of the health and safety of the workforce. 

Remove barriers that rob people of pride of workmanship. Eliminate the annual rating or merit system. Provide a rating system that promotes continual positive reinforcement. Do not wait for the year-end to discuss safety performance. It must be an ongoing process. 

Programme evaluation system Engineering controls Personal communication Group meetings General (safety) promotion Hiring and placement Purchasing controls Off-the-job safety... 

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