Safety-conscious business operations require a systematic, ongoing effort to find and fix workplace hazards before employees get injured. Safety and Health Management System is what it’s known as. An SHMS requires leadership support; worker participation (including the active involvement of any union that is present in your organization) as well as hazard detection and assessment, prevention and control; opportunities for education and training and regular program evaluation and improvement.
Traditional methods blame the cause of accidents on the workers. Herbert W. Heinrich’s 1930s premise that 85-95% of accidents are caused by unsafe actions of people, sparked numerous forms of behavior-based safety (BBS). Recently the people who advocate for quality approach safety by recognizing that accidents are the result of processes and systems and use quality tools to minimize the likelihood of them happening.
Managers must convey the message that being a safe business is a key part of their job. This can be accomplished through explicit comments or performance reviews as well as bonuses. LyondellBasell for example will inform its employees that, no matter how low their OSHA recordable injury rates are, if there’s a serious accident on site, the manager will not be receiving any bonus.
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