What Makes a Safety Management System Fly
Had quite a bit of interest recently in this article – one of the most popular articles written by the late, great George Robotham – download his free E-Books HERE
Original published by the American Society of Safety Engineers, International Safety Best-Practice Specialty Newsletter, Spring 2002,Vol.1, No.3, incorporated in a subject of a OHS course at the University of New Brunswick, Canada – republished here by popular demand
Download the paper here: WHAT MAKES A SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FLY
Basic Principles from the paper:
- Use real world approaches – not theory
- All paperwork must be succinct
- Whatever is done in OHS must be based on a needs analysis
- Need to get some runs on the board quickly
- Concentrate on the things that give you the best bang for your buck
- Aim for simplicity not complexity
- Minimise the bureaucracy and bull-shit
- Face to face communications should be used wherever possible
- Be guided in what you do by taxonomies of Class 1 damage in your industry
- As the facilitator of the process I will use the skills of appropriate self-disclosure and reflective listening