)Management system
Many people feel that safety management is difficult to implement. And that’s a pity, because a safety management system can provide structure. Strictly speaking, a management system is a formal programme containing agreements whose aim is to manage an organisation or a process. A management system is really a continuous programme used to achieve the organisation’s or process’s mission, values, rules of conduct and objectives. A management system defines and lays down working procedures, as well as the way in which the effectiveness of the working procedures is assessed and improved.
Comprehensive management system
Innumerable management systems have been devised and implemented during the past decades, all of which only control a small part of an organisation’s working procedures. Some examples are ISO 9001, HACCP, OHSAS 18001, BRZO, ISO 14001, NTA 8620, COMO, VCA, ISO 16949, ISO 22000, ISO/IEC 27001, BRC, GMP, EMAS, BRL, TQM, EFQM, INK and ISPS. This means that many organisations have lost track of the situation, and hardly any organisations have a comprehensive safety management system either.
D&F has all the necessary expertise to set up an effective safety management system at your company. Some organisations even implement a risk management system for all their strategic, financial and operational risks on the basis of ISO 31000 (risk management).
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Comprehensive safety audit
Carrying out a comprehensive safety audit is the first step towards an efficient safety management system. D&F has devised a comprehensive safety audit based on the International Rating System (ISRS). This audit model is ideal for carrying out an audit yourself on your entire management system or on its component parts. The audit focuses on your hardware, software and ‘humanware’ (i.e. the safety management system).
The audit contains extremely practical questions which are answered through interviews, inspections, observation and documentation research. Standards such as ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, VCA, BRZO, HACCP, ISO 14001 and so on can also be included in the audit, depending on your sector and your specific wishes.
Results of the safety audit
The audit covers all the relevant issues analysed in interviews, Physical Condition Evaluations (PCEs) and document verifications. The report of the audit includes your scores on all programme elements, as well as a project plan for improvement.
All the indicators for the safety management system are given in 17 areas. An easy-reference final report gives you the recommendations which fit in best with prevailing opinions and situations in order to achieve improvement. This report is clarified in a final presentation.