Safety Management System a beginners guide

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Safety Management System

• A beginners guide

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What is a Safety Management System?

• A system that is designed solely for the purpose
  that is, to manage safety risk at the workplace.
• It should reduce the risk to a level that is as
  low as is reasonably practical or ALARP, thereby
  preventing harm to people.
• The system should be able to identify, assess and
  control hazards to all people involved, employees
  and the public.
• There is a substantial body of evidence that an
  efficient safety management system can reduce any
  financial exposure or damage to the reputation of
  the company by bringing down the number of
  accidents.

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Industrial Safety Standards

• ANZI Z-10
• ISO 45001
• OSHA Safety Management Guidelines
• Behaviour Based Safety
• Fundamentals of Scientific Management
• New View of Safety Management

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ANSI Z-10

• The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  oversees standards and conformity assessment
  activities in the US.
• ANSI Z10 is an Occupational Health and Safety
  Management Systems Standard, that offers a
  comprehensive strategy for common benefits in the
  occupational safety and health area for achieving
  better productivity, service, quality, profit,
  and other organizational goals.
• ANSI Z-10 covers minimum requirements for an
  occupational safety and health management system,
  it has also included risk assessment components
  recently.

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Key Topics Covered in ANSI Z-10

• Management Leadership
• Management Review
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Policy Statements
• Employee Participation
• Assessment and Prioritization
• Planning
• Implementation and Operation
• Evaluation and Corrective Action
• Audit Information

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ISO 45001-Occupational Health Safety

• ISO or the International Standard Organization is
  an independent non-governmental organization that
  brings together experts from across the world to
  share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus
  based, market relevant international standards.
• International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates
  that more than 2.3 million people die at work
  from an occupational injury or disease. ISO 45001
  sets minimum standard of practice to ensure the
  safety of employees at workplace.
• With the sudden emergence of the corona virus
  pandemic, ISO has published a new standard for
  workplace safety management. ISO/PAS 45005
  Occupational Health and Safety Management,
  General guidelines for safe working during the
  COVID-19 Pandemic.

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OSHA Safety Management Guidelines

• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  that comes under the Unites Stated Department of
  Labour recommends practices for safety and health
  programs.
• These non-mandatory safety and health program is
  more like a step wise approach.
• And the approach is based around seven core
  elements

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7 Core Elements in OSHA Guidelines

• Management Leadership
• Worker Participation
• Hazard Identification and Assessment
• Hazard Prevention and Control
• Education and Training
• Program Evaluation and Improvement
• Communication and Coordination for Host
  Employers, Contractors and Staffing Agencies.

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Behavioural Based Safety

• Behavioural based safety leverages on the safety
  observations to inform management of overall
  safety of the workplace.
• In the process of BBS, trained observers conduct
  reviews on other employees based on their
  behaviour in the workplace.
• The observer takes note of safe and unsafe
  behaviour as well as working conditions, these
  parameters might not be the same for all
  companies.
• These notes are then passed on to management as
  feedbacks and then management can evaluate these
  behaviours and take necessary steps to make sure
  that people do not behave unsafe in the workplace
  for the sake of their own safety.

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Scientific Management

• Scientific management is the theory by which you
  can analyse and synthesize workflows to improve
  economic efficiency and labour productivity.
• It was Frederick Taylor that proposed this
  management style.
• The principal object of scientific management is
  to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer.

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New View of Safety Management

• In the new view of safety management or Safety-II
  that came about in late 1990s focuses on
  increasing the effectiveness of the safety effort
  and to reduce injuries thereby avoiding
  fatalistic accidents.

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Conclusion

• Safety of the employees and people involved is
  and always will be the first priority of
  organizations.
• We discussed here various industrial safety
  standards, along with these adopting the services
  of an automated safety management system at the
  company that will ensure proper governance of the
  safety management procedures at the organization.
• These certifications and practices that ensures
  safety also drives reliability of the brand name
  of an organization, which will be a great factor
  to drive businesses at organizations.