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Santos USA Corp
Essential Ingredients of a Successful Safety
Management System

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Safety is the Core of Our Business

• Old mindset - safety is an additional thing that
  is tagged on to all activity - the caboose on the
  train

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Safety is the Core of Our Business

• New mindset - get safety right then all other
  facets of our business will be right - the core
  of the apple

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Safety is the Core of Our Business

• New mindset - get safety right then all other
  facets of our business will be right - the core
  of the apple

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Back to Basics for a minute or 2
Why should we bother about safety? The simple
(and most often forgotten) answer is

• We are soft bodied animals and we break easily!
• - not armour plated
• - not bullet proof
• - people (esp. young men) need constant reminding.

• Throughout our lives we encounter forces
  stronger than
• we are.

Safety is nothing more than ensuring these forces
are under our control.
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• But
• The human species has evolved successfully
• because we are risk-takers!
• it is in our nature to confront danger head on!

At work, Society demands we behave differently

• A Safety Management System is required to
  control inappropriate risk-taking at work

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So what is a Safety Management System?

• Safety
• Safety is a simple formula, described in 6 words
• identify the hazard,
• control the hazard.
• Incidentally, if people were good at this we
  wouldnt need the Management or the System.

Management Creating a working environment for
people to achieve excellent results
System Interconnection of separate parts
contributing to a predictable outcome.
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Hazard Management

• The four key elements in Hazard Management are
• 1. Identify the hazards
• 2. Assess the risks associated with each hazard
• 3. Put controls in place to reduce the risks to
  an acceptable level
• 4. Have recovery plans in place if there is a
  loss of control
• Now I can finish the job

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Identify the hazard Control the hazard
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Whatever the content, whatever the tools, the
system must identify and control ALL hazards
By permission of P. Jarver