Safety Management Systems
Most companies pay little attention to safety management. The present trend is based on an integrated safety, health, environment and quality management system for analysing, reducing and controlling risks. The purpose of this is to reduce the number of incidents and thus the number of accidents. An accident leads to the loss of man, machine, material, environment, management, market, brand name and motivation. The costs involved are not transparent (iceberg theory).
D&F tackles this problem!
Safety management is the application of an effective management system that pro-actively prevents losses (damage).
The first step to a functioning safety management system is the integrated audit. This is focused on hardware, software and human ware (safety management system, in other words).
- An inspection is focused on hardware (unsafe conditions).
- Document control is focused on the software (quality systems).
- Observation is focused on human ware (unsafe acts).
Through the integrated audit D&F makes ‘white spots’ transparent in a Total of 16 elements. Depending on your branch and wishes standards such as ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, VCA, BRZO, HACCP, ISO 14001 and the like can be incorporated in the audit.
In total, the audit covers all relevant subjects that are screened by interviews, Physical Condition Evaluation (PCE) and document control. The report on the integrated audit contains your scores on all programme divisions and a project plan for improvement.
The integrated audit contains the following programme elements:
- Management and policy
- Loss control programme
- Risk assessment and reduction
- Critical task inventory and analysis
- Human Resources (HRM)
- Procedures
- Education and training
- Communication and promotion
- Purchase and document management
- Health and Environment
- Regulations, permits and PBMs
- Technical safety and MOC
- Incident reporting and investigation
- Observations, motivation
- Inspections and maintenance
- Emergency situations
- Ongoing improvement