Safety Management Systems Development

Safety management systems are a fundamental part in the management and control of health and safety risks within the workplace. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, require employers to ensure they do the following:

• Develop policies for health and safety.
• Allocate resources for dealing with health and safety matters.
• Set up a competent organisation for dealing with health and safety issues.
• Establish communication channels for information flow on health and safety matters.
• Ensure that competent advice is sought from qualified and experienced safety professionals.
• Plan and implement programmes to control risks.
• Ensure that all other health and safety regulations are complied with.
• Measure performance and the efficiency of control measures.
• Review and audit the above.

To ensure the above requirements are met, safety management systems should be designed on the following model:

Our safety management system design is based on the above model, with each of the components integrating with other aspects of our services. Also, our management system design recognises that procedures and systems are only as good as the people who are expected to use them. Therefore, our approach to safety management system design is to ensure that each of the above components are simple in their use, and are "people friendly".

We believe that policies and procedures are important, as are well maintained items of equipment and tools. However, we also believe that, even with the best of procedures and the best of equipment, people often "behave" in unexpected ways. Our safety management systems are designed very much with this idea in mind. To achieve this important integration between systems and people, we have developed observation programmes that complement each of the components of the management model.

If you would like further details of how we can create a safety management system that integrates with human behaviour, please contact us.