The Management of Safety

Groeneweg J., 1992. Controlling the controllable the management of safety, DSWO Press, Leiden. 

The management of safety data requires not only all the care that management of every other type of data collected requires (recall Section 5.9) but also some extra considerations. The first of these is the process of coding. To facilitate the summarization of AE data that are collected in the subjects own words (or the investigators version of their words), and can therefore be heterogeneous, a degree of uniformity has to be introduced. For example, the terms headache, ... 

Which existing prevention measures are not working as well as planned -problem recognition, the proof that a new system is vulnerable or that an old one is still vulnerable despite current attempts to make it safe and hence that vigilance in the management of safety should not be relaxed. We call this use "alertness" because it serves to activate people in the organisation to be and remain alert. 

The discussions of safety management systems in Chapter 4 were concerned with the management of safety within such approaches which also necessarily develops the understanding that safety is... 

At the heart of the safety case approach lies an understanding that is the operator of a facility—not the regulator—who decides how to ensure safe operations. This nonprescriptive approach to the management of safety is similar to the manner in which most PSM programs are prepared and administered. The operator of the facility, known as the duty holder, develops a safety system that is pertinent to that particular facility. The duty holder s performance is then assessed against his or her own standard. 

Two commonly used quotations are, What gets measured gets done and, You become what you measure. The philosophy embedded in those two statements applies to the management of safety... 

Since those early days, the management of safety on process facilities has matured and improved dramatically. Also PSM is now typically seen as being part of the bigger picture of risk management, covering not just safety but also environmental performance, quality, production, and productivity. Therefore, in the year 2010 the book was greatly expanded and renamed Process Risk and Reliability Management. 

This chapter has considered the management of safety in the off-site outdoor classroom and identified some of the basic principles of safe practice when working out of doors. Adequate and appropriate supervision, in its widest sense, has been shown to be fundamental not only to safe practice, but also to litigation avoidance. 

Consider the following excerpts from those Criteria as they relate to safety management (meaning the management of safety, health, and environmental affairs). The excerpts are cited with minimum comment by this author because they speak for themselves as being desirable for safety management guidance. 

Some approaches to the management of safety at the workplace, however, have been and remain successful. When one reviews these stalwart approaches it is clear that they are the difficult route to take and are not one of the many quick-fix solutions to safety problems offered over the years. 

To establish and sustain a system of safety and health committees (safety committees) throughout the company to facilitate the management of safety and health issues and to provide a forum for safety communication, the company safety and health management system (company system) implementation, and decision making. 

Assignment of safety responsibility to a senior executive, such as a vice president,with the manager of safety and health programs reporting to this person. 

On the contrary, if the managers take measures to reduce unsafe behavior and unsafe condition, it will lower accident rates. The managers can put the energy and resources into equipment of intrinsically safe and employee safety quality improvement. It will further enhance the enterprise the overall level of safety management. Thus, it can come to the managers of safety cognitive mode (see fig 3). 

The magnitude and speed of the changes associated with deregulation can be expected to create major challenges to the management of safety in the U.S. nuclear power industry, as they did in all three case study industries. Careful review and study of those challenges may make it possible to avoid similar safety problems in the U.S. nuclear power industry. 

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 tell us that employers must systematically examine the workplace, the work activity and the management of safety in the establishment through a process... 

Reiman, T. and Rollenhagen, C. 2011. Human and organizational biases affecting the management of safety. Reliability Engineering System Safety, 96,1263-74,doi 10.1016/j.ress.2011.05.010. 

Unlike most management activities, safety usually operates from a purely staff position. The implications of this pervade safety and affect the way it operates in the organization. To understand the management of safety, an understanding of line and staff positions is essential... 

Behavioral safety is about integrating behavioral management into the management of safety in your company. 

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