Safety Management System

Explaining Reason’s Swiss Cheese Epidemiological or Latent Failure Model

The “Swiss Cheese” model developed by James Reason is an example of the epidemiological model.  This is a complex, linear cause-and-effect model where accidents are seen as the result of a combination of active failures (unsafe acts) and latent conditions (unsafe conditions)… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready...

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A review of ISO 45001

ISO 45001 is one of my favorite management systems for my non-PSM/RMP clients.  But a lot of folks have no idea of what a Safety Management System is or how it functions, so here is a breakdown of ISO 45001…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member?...

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Safety culture or an amazingly obident workforce?

We hear the phrase “safety culture” being tossed around in today’s management like it is some measurable object or goal.  This, in its own right, shows the vast lack of understanding of what a safety culture is.  My first boss, who I will always praise, was all about his employees.  He wanted the very best…...

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PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE

Excellence in human performance is more likely if front-line workers, support staff, and managers embrace the following underlying truths or principles that provide the bases for the behaviors. Integrating these principles into management and leadership practices, worker practices, and the organization’s processes and values will help guide the development of a philosophy and strategy for…...

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Culture vs. Compliance

After 25 years of being in the industrial safety profession, I have heard the debate about “culture” to the point it has become ridiculous. I was very fortunate to work for two of the finest plant managers early in my career and both of these men were strong leaders and the safety of those in…...

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Safety does not come naturally!

Most managers honestly do not want to see anyone get injured, but most of them have never seen what a fully functioning “safety management system” actually looks like and what it actually takes to have some level of assurance that injury prevention efforts are real. Both “Claude” and “Dale” opened my eyes up to a…...

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Developing a Safety Culture is like raising kids

With the sad revelations coming out of the Slag Tank catastrophe and having spent time with my Dad a couple of weekends ago A thought just popped in my head…   as a child my parents were constantly saying “I don’t care what Johnny is doing” and “if Johnny jumped off a bridge would you?”…...

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Maturity levels of the safety cultures (Parker, Lawrie & Hudson)

Westrum (1991, 2004) proposed a description of three (3) levels of safety culture advancement. Hudson (1999), and later Parker, Lawrie & Hudson (2006), built on these and developed five (5) levels of safety culture advancement.  Depending on its level of maturity, safety culture is either characterized as Pathological Reactive Calculative Proactive, or Generative This classification…...

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The model of an Organizational Accident (Reason, 1997)

The accident sequence begins with the negative consequences of organizational processes (i.e., decisions concerned with planning, forecasting, designing, managing, communicating, budgeting, monitoring, auditing, and the like). Another very influential factor is the system’s safety culture…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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The difference between “hazard” and “risk”

As safety professionals we need to use terms from our profession CORRECTLY.  For example, “risk” is NOT the same as “hazard”.  I think we can all agree that flying in an airplane at 30,000 feet at 500 mph, with 50,000 pounds of jet fuel is hazardous!  But these days on a commercial airliner it is…...

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Accident Investigation Principles (DOE)

The basis for conducting any event investigation is to understand the organizational, cultural, or technical factors that, left unattended, could result in future accidents. Guiding concepts may be summarized as follows:… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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Accident Causation Models

The Sequence of Events Model This is a simple, linear cause and effect model where accidents are seen as the natural culmination of a series of events or circumstances that occur in a specific and recognizable order. A chain often represents the model with a weak link or a series of falling dominos. This model…...

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