The Safety Charter

It is essential that the Safety Function he implemented as a Line responsibility. The Safety Organizational element within the company is a Staff function which provides advice and assistance to the Line in their efforts to comply with all established safety requirements in daily operations of the organization. Safety, as a task, must clearly be the function of the Line, or Safety will not succeed. 

This Safety Charter allows for safety to be a produetive and functioning element of an organization s daily operations. It demonstrates that effective safety management. 

Basic Guide to System Safety, Third Edition. Jeffrey W. Vincoli. 

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SAE has established a Fuel Cells Standard Forum that is chartered with the establishment of standards and test procedures for fuel cell powered vehicles. The committee was established in 1999. The standards will cover the safety, performance, reliability and recyclability of fuel cell systems in vehicles with emphasis on efficiency and environmental impact. The standards will also establish test procedures for uniformity in test results for the vehicle/systems/components performance, and define interface requirements of the systems to the vehicle. Task Groups have been formed in the areas of safety, performance, reliability, emissions, recyclability, interface and miscellaneous. 

The Perstorp Group has developed its own SHE management system, based on the Swedish Safety at Work Act, ISO 14001, the EMAS, Responsible Care and the Business Charter for Sustainable Development. Since 1995 it has carried out 40 audits to prioritise actions needed to implement the SHE management system. There is a corporate objective to implement this system in all divisions by 2000. 

European Community (2004) Council Directive 98/83/EC on the quality of water intended for human consumption as of 3 November 1998 (Drinking Water Directive DWD) and The Bonn Charter for Safe Drinking Water , Water Safety Plans, IWA. 

Unlike final analyses where most of the analyses are prespecified, the reporting statisticians should review their analyses with an eye toward questions that are likely to arise at the DMC meeting. They should prepare additional analyses in anticipation of such questions. Therefore, the analysis plan described in the DMC charter cannot be fixed but is simply a framework for initial reports the DMCs charter must allow the reporting statistician and DMC flexibility to modify the reports as needed to meet the committee s responsibility for monitoring patient safety. 

The RCSC conducts appraisals of the HCF at least annually, and the RCSC Charter identifies criticality-safety items to be included in the audit. HCF criticality-safety issues are documented and followed up in accordance with SNL ES H requirements of GN470072, which are reflected in nuclear facility operations procedures. HCF operational procedures require a record of HCF fissile inventory at ail times. These records shall be used and maintained to document compliance with criticality mass limits. 

To accommodate HCF experimental capabilities, a defined process for the preparation, review, and approval of experiments is established as an important element of facility safety. Experiment control is exercised through a system of administrative procedures that are applied to classify experiments into three broad categories (Class I, II, or III) in accordance with the RCSC charter. In addition, all experiments must be conducted in accordance with the approved Technical Safety Requirements, and potential consequences of conducting the experiment must be bounded by the safety analysis in Chapter 3 of this SAR. Proposed experiments that would exceed either of these constraints must be submitted to the SNL Nuclear Facilities Safety Committee (NFSC) and to DOE/AL for review and approval. 

The NFSC is chartered by and directly responsible to the Vice President with line responsibility for the TA-V nuclear fecilities, the Energy, Information, and Infrastructure Technology Division. The NFSC acts in an advisory capacity to the line director responsible for the nuclear facilities. The subordinate facility safety committees (e.g. RCSC) are authorized to make recommendations to line management regarding the safety of matters that satisfy general criteria that have been reviewed by the NFSC and are delineated in the subordinate safety committee charter. 

A written charter or standard operating procedure (SOP) outlines the safety committee structure and other forums. 

The 1997-9 reports of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) reinforced prior warnings and recommendations. ASAP is a senior advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress. The panel was chartered by Congress in 1967, after the tragic Apollo 1 fire, to act as an independent body advising NASA on the safety... 

One of O Keefe s initiatives was a benchmarking study comparing the safety organizations and culture of the shuttle program with those at the Navy Subsafe program. In the interim report of December 20, 2002, about six weeks before the Columbia accident, O Keefe s charter letter to the team discussed the need to... 

The MCG s Health and Safety Charter for member companies is as follows ... 

School bus drivers should be required to perform daily pretrip inspections of their vehicles and the safety equipment thereon (especially fire extinguishers), and to report promptly and in writing any problons discovered that may affect the safety of the vehicle s operation or result in its mechanical breakdown. Pretrip inspection and condition reports for school buses and school-chartered buses subject to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations of FHWA should be performed in accordance with those regulations (49 CFR 392.7, 392.8, and 396 U.S. Department of Transportation, 2006). 

Safety committees have traditionally been used as a focal point of employee involvement. An effective safety committee can readily spread a positive influence for safety-related activities and efforts rapidly through an organization. To develop a positive safety committee, a charter of its mandate and structure, training on the basics of holding a meeting, and core training on the safety management system are needed to sustain its effectiveness. 

A charter is recommended to clearly define the scope and structure of the safety committee. A charter is the document that will provide guidance over the life of the committee and gives the reason for the establishment of the committee. 

In order to develop a committee or team charter effectively, a series of questions need to be answered to assess as many aspects of the committee/team s potential duties, accountabilities, and authority as possible. These questions are answered prior to the initial meeting formalizing or revitalizing the safety committee. The questions develop the basic content for the safety committee charter. 

A charter is recommended to clearly define the scope and structure of the safety committee. 

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