What Are Critical Safety and Health System Elements

WHAT ARE CRITICAL SAFETY AND HEALTH SYSTEM ELEMENTS  

Critical safety elements are elements that include environmental and anployee factors and which need to be controlled constantly to prevent losses occurring from, for example, injuries, disease, damage, production delays, and environmental harm. These elements form the ongoing safety program or, more aptly termed, safety and health management system. 

Critical safety elements are those elements most likely to give rise to losses. Past experience based on thousands of safety inspections and audits have shown that control over certain aspects of the environment and work practices, can significantly reduce accidents. 

Controlling critical safety elements is precontact safety control. It is effort directed toward the prevention of undesired events. Once controls over certain critical elements are exercised, proactive safety is practiced. 

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