Safety Management System and role of Safety Specialists
Safety Management System and role of Safety Specialist
This article
provides information about the basic concept of the Safety Management System
(SMS), its definition, its history, the elements, the pillar of SMS,
how to influence safe behavior, safety promotions, the concept of risk. , how
to control the risk, how to monitor the performance of the safety management
system and the role of the safety specialist / practitioner while developing
and maintaining the health and safety management system.
Safety Management System (SMS)
Safety
Management system (SMS)
provides the systematic & structural approach to manage the workplace risk by
continuous process of identification and evaluation of workplace hazards and
assurance of effectiveness of controls to prevent incidents / accidents. It also
helps organization to improve their business performance, brand value, customer
relation, employee’s & social moral, social wellbeing and financial aspect by
minimizing the losses.
Safety
management system (SMS) provides
perfect structure and clear guidelines to any organization for managing
workplace health and safety by establishing, implementing and maintaining the organizational
health and safety Policy, framework of roles and responsibilities, safety culture, emergency preparedness, Risk management and control.
It also provides
the systematic approach on planning and implementation of safety including safety
promotion, performance evaluation, action for improvement and audit. It promotes
continual improvement in health and safety system for sustainable business.
Safety management system definition
“Safety
management system is a systematic approach to managing the safety, including the
necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies, and
procedures”.
Why it is important to implement a safety management system
International
Labour Organization (ILO) publishing global statistics related to the number of
accidents and disease cases that are reported and recorded globally. This
accident/ incident statistics alerting and helping the different organizations
and individuals to manage health and safety standards within the workplace for
various reasons.
If we study this data
published by ILO and other similar global organization, it is clearly indicating
three main factors responsible for implementing and maintaining the best safety
management system.
Factor-1:
Moral: Several people being
killed, injured, or made sick by their work, morally it is unacceptable, and
society demands that people should be safe in their workplace. Its moral duty
that one person must care another.
Factor-2:
Social: Its legal requirement and law govern the
conduct of businesses/organizations (whether small or large). An employer has a
duty to provide a safe place of work, equipment, safe plant and safe systems of
work, adequate training and supervision, and competent employees.
Factor-3:
Economical: Accident cause
direct and indirect costs (loss), some of these losses can be insured but most
of them are uninsured. Its truth that accidents and ill-health cost money.
It is truth that
almost all organization are more focused on financial aspects. To minimize the financial
losses, we must focus on direct and indirect costs both.
Direct
costs: Cost for first-aid
treatment, sick pay, overtime, costs incurred to cover their absence, cost to
repair of damaged equipment, lost/damaged product cost, lost production time,
fines, and compensation payment, etc.
Indirect
costs: Time taken to investigate the accident, the costs
of additional control measures to prevent recurrence, comply with enforcement
notices, cost associated with the training and new recruitment, loss of morale
could impact productivity, or damage the organization’s public image or
customer relationships.
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History of safety management system
Before 1970, There
was Bureau of Labour Office regulated employee safety standards. The federal
government's health and safety efforts and regulations were rare before OSHA,
but significant progress has led to the formation of the department.
With the industrial
development and lot of constructions activities recorded before 1887, unsafe conditions
including dangerous chemical and negligible safety standards were responsible
for many fatalities. Therefore, Massachusetts was the first state to pass security
laws in 1887 and the Department of Labour was created in 1913 by President
Taft. In 1933, Frances Perkins became the first woman to sit in the cabinet
when she was appointed secretary of labor. There, created the Bureau of Labor
Standards that helped states improve safety standards in the workplace.
Initially the
safety standards were more focused of machine guarding and basic safety precautions
including emergency exit. Then they started periodic workplace inspection by
regulating agencies.
Also, in earlier years
.ie. in 1930, generally organizations were set standard for fatality rate in
relation with financial aspect, for examples, they expect one
death for every million dollars spent on a project.
Also, during
incident investigation, team were more focused on “what” and “why” happened, Incident
investigation was type of “fault finding” rather than ‘fact’ finding. The recommendation
was most focused on technical upgradation and product quality improvement. The safety
system was more reactive type.
After 1970s,
peoples then started to focus on human factor, human psychology, behaviour along
with other technical factors. While investigating the incidences, they started considering
the human factor, introduced the word “HOW” along with “WHY” and thus safety process
become proactive.
Proactive approach
becomes the base of safety management system. The word “management system” introduced
for system-based approach to framework the organizational strategy to manage
the risk and assurance of controls over hazards. As safety is condition thus
requires constant relook with changes in work environment and therefore safety
management system must be dynamic. This need identified and introduced the concept
of safety assurance and safety promotions.
The concept of safety
management system introduced by International Labour Organization (ILO) by
publishing ILO-OSH 2001, It provides the Guidelines on occupational safety and
health management systems to assist organizations for implementation of safety management
systems. The elements of the guidelines were safety policy, organization,
planning & implementation, evaluation, and action for improvement.
Occupation health
and safety standard was introduced by British and Polish standard and continue
from 1999 to 2018 internationally. OHSAS: 18001 was adopted internationally for
certification but more.
Elements of safety management system
As the safety
management system is a systematic approach to managing the safety, including
the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies, and
procedures, ILO-OSH 2001 and OHSAS-81001 introduced the concept of PDCA cycle, where “P” represent “PLAN”, “D” as
‘DO”, ‘”C” means “CHECK” and “A” represents “ACT”. This concept also used in
many other standards like, ISO:9001, ISO 14001, etc.
All these
standards have common way of approach and the key elements of safety management
systems are
1) Safety
and health Policy: It is documented and clear statement shows the
commitment of top management about safety and health within the organization at
all levels.
2) Organising
for safety: It gives the framework
of safety roles and responsibilities at all level, manpower competency, safety
culture, behavior-based safety, emergency preparedness and response, first-aid,
etc
3) Planning
and Implementing: This is more
related to hazard identification, risk assessment, risk evaluation, risk management
by providing the controls, setting the safety objectives and targets,
arrangement of resources, developing management programmes to achieve the safety
targets, ensure the sources of information, ensure the safe system of work along with permit to work system, etc.
4) Evaluation/
monitoring and measurement: It is more related to monitoring and review
the effectiveness of controls put in risk management and safety objective and
targets. It may involve the monitoring of leading and lagging safety indicators
by reviewing of safety performance, may include reviewing the accidents and ill-health
statistics, the performance of safety targets, corrective actions against unsafe
act and unsafe conditions, performance of safety management system
other elements, etc.
5) Corrective
and improvement actions: This
element of safety management system focused on corrective/ improvement actions
on deficiencies identified during review process. It may require amending the company policy,
risk controls, organization, resources and arrangement for implementation.
6) Safety
management system audits: This
element focused on health checkup of safety management system. It should be independent
and systematic for detail examination of the safety management system.
It gives the feedback to SMS system review process.
7) Continual
Improvement: Continual
improvement is stepwise improvement to promote sustainable business. The safety management system
should not stagnate as the static system degrades the performance of any management
system. With the changes in the work environment, hazards and risks can also change
and therefore to make the system more appropriate and useful for the organization,
we must focus on continual improvement.
Safety management system components
Safety management
system components can be summarized as management commitment in the form of Safety
policy, safety objectives and targets, management programs or action plans to provide
the means and method to achieve the safety objective and targets, resource
allocation, roles and responsibilities at all level, competency related to
safety, safety accountabilities, appointment of key safety personnel, planning
and implementation, Risk management, safe system of work, monitoring and
measurement, review, corrective actions, emergency response, audit, continual improvement
and system documentation.
Four pillars of safety management system
We have already seen the elements of the safety
management system according to ILO-OSH 2001 and OHSAS-81001 which is applicable
to all types of industries and organizations. Now, following the advancement of
the system and the organizations having the most critical operations like the
aviation industries, the safety management system is summarized and implemented
by comprising the main components below. These main components are also called
the four pillars of the safety management system.
1) Safety policy and safety objectives
2) Safety Risk Management (SRM)
3) Safety Assurance
4) Safety Promotion
All above pillars or components provides the systematic
approach to managing the safety, including the necessary organizational
structures, accountabilities, policies, and procedures. The ultimate goal is to
reduce the risk at ALARP level by systematic process of safety assurance and
continual improvement for sustainable business.
1) Safety policy and safety objectives
Safety policy must be documented, it must show the commitment of
top management about continual improvement in safety and health within the organization,
it must be relevant and appropriate to the organization and its functions.
Safety policy must provide the scope for short terms and long terms organizational
objectives.
A health and safety policy should be reviewed regularly
so that it remains current and relevant. It is suggested to review the policy
annually, however, there are other circumstances which could be considered for
reviews.
The purpose of the review is to keep the policy
up-to-date and accurate. During review, date of the previous review and current
date must be recorded on policy documents.
Below are certain circumstances where policy must
be reviewed:
After any changes in Legal obligations or introduction
of new legislation applicable to the organization.
During any technological changes i.e. introduction
of new equipment, plant or processes.
Organizational changes ie. changes to key personnel
or changes to the management structure of the organization.
After any major incident/ accident, investigation,
or risk assessment may suggest that policy is not effective.
Any non-compliance observed in audit and proved
that it is not relevant to guideline and current conditions.
Any changes to the type of work that organization
does.
Safety objective and Targets
Safety objectives can be derived from safety
policy, legal requirements and risk assessment. Objectives must be SMART
(specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time framed) and monitored as
per frequency set by organizations. Target should be set for each objective and
must be achieved through systematic process of management programs or action
plans. The performance of objectives and
targets should be reviewed periodically. It is common practice that management
objectives are divided into departmental Key Performance Area (KPA) and Key
Performance Indicators (KPI) for better monitoring and achieving the targets.
2) Safety Risk Management (SRM)
Risk management is the key component of safety management
system. Without assessing the risk, we cannot decide the relevant safety
controls to prevent the incidences or accidents. Risk assessment helps businesses
to allocate the appropriate and adequate resources, to estimate the financial
implications, to allocate the safety budget, the insurance coverage and much
more. This component, risk management,
is the main input for deciding the organizational objective and targets.
There are three types of risk assessment ie.
Qualitative, Semi qualitative cum quantitative and Quantitative risk
assessment.
Small scale industries and non-hazards industries
are generally adopting qualitative risk assessment.
Medium scale industries and industries those are not
handling any hazardous chemicals are generally adopting Qualitative and semi qualitative-cum-quantitative
risk assessment method.
Large scale industries, chemicals, refineries and
petroleum (hazardous industries) are adopting both quantitative risk assessment
(QRA) and Semi quantitative risk assessment (qualitative-cum-quantitative).
There are many techniques are being used to
identify the hazards, prioritize it, analyze, and assess the risk to decide the
controls based on risk level. Risk should be managed well to prevent accidents
and to minimize the consequences. Risk is the product of likelihood and consequences.
Here is the suggested sequence of process
for any risk management
a) Risk management procedure: Develop the risk management procedure to describe the
systematic process of hazard identification and risk assessment. Here the risk
matrix and competency criteria of risk assessment team is also set.
b) Hazard identification and prioritization: Identify the workplace hazards including the
hazards related to each routine and non-routine activities.
c) Risk analysis: Analyze the risk by considering the existing
controls, evaluating the legal requirements, considering the detection/ communication
resources, type of activities (ie normal, abnormal or emergency), etc risk
should be analyze. The main objective of risk analysis is to understand and analyze
the safety issues,
d) Risk assessment: Assess the risk by set risk matrix and industrial acceptance
criteria. Here we are deciding the risk level, whether it is acceptable or not.
It helps to decide the appropriate cost-effective controls.
e) Deciding and providing the controls: Control the risk by ensuring and providing the
adequate and effective controls. Below are hierarchy of controls
1.
Eliminate the hazards
2.
Substitute the hazards
3.
Isolate the hazard
4.
Use engineering controls.
5.
Use administrative controls.
6.
And last is use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
i) Eliminate the hazards: It is the most effective control to bring the risk at negligible level but in most of the cases it is impracticable and difficult to implement in existing system/process. It may be implemented during designing phase but still it may not be cost effective.
ii) Substitute the hazards: This risk control method is very effective and may be implemented in existing process and most effectively implemented during designing stage but is expensive. Substituting the highly hazardous substance/chemical with less or nonhazardous one having same functionality without adverse the plant process is good idea.
iii) Isolate the hazard: This risk control method is mostly used by all organizations and effective method for reducing the risk level by isolating the hazard. It provides the barrier between hazard and occupant or working peoples. Machine guarding is the best example of isolating the hazard.
iv) Use engineering controls: Engineering control helps to remove the hazard at the source thus controlling exposures to the peoples in the workplace. It provides the independent high level of protection to the occupants as it prevents the direct interactions with them.
v) Use administrative controls: It is less effective method of risk control and depends on human behaviour and organizational safety culture. It is adopted when there is no effective method suitable to reduce the hazard. It is time consuming and requires more effort to implement and sustain.
vi) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): It is considered as last resort or last line of defense and should not be considered during risk management. But still it is important as it provide the barrier between hazard and workmen after failure of all above controls.
3) Safety assurance
As safety is sate or condition in which the risk is reduced to and maintained at or below acceptable level through continuous process of hazard identification and risk assessment, and subject to change with changes in work environment, safety assurance component of safety management system helps to evaluate the effectiveness of risk management. It helps to evaluate the effectiveness and relevancy of implemented controls over the hazards. It also supports to identify the new hazards due to changes in the work environment.
Safety assurance includes;
i. Safety performance monitoring and measurement
ii. Incident investigation
iii. The management of change
iv. Assurance of legal requirements
v. Inspection, monitoring, measurement, audits and effectiveness of corrective actions.
vi. Continual improvement
It is continuous practice to ensuring the controls over risk. It also helps to identify the problems/ defect proactively so that corrective measures can be taken to prevent non compliance or incidents.
4) Safety promotion
This component of safety management system is more related to create and improve the safety culture of an organization at all level. It includes
i. Training, education and competency
ii. Safety communication and awareness
iii. Participation & Consultation
i. Training, education and competency
If the workforce is competent for the tasks or work assigned to them, there is less risk to incident/accident. Competence is something related to individual qualification, skill and experience in particular subject or task. Training and education help to improve the skill of the individual. The organization must maintain the record and consider this factor during new recruitment. The identification of training need should be carried out annually on the basis of gap analysis. Line mangers/ supervisors must provide input to HR department by identifying the gap for training needs. Based on training need identification of the individual worker, HR or training department should organize the relevant training program to enhance the competency of workforce.
Safety management system training
Here are the two main factors that the organization may consider when developing health and safety training programs.
A. Safety and health mandatory trainings: Training on risk management, emergency and response plan, firefighting, HSE policy, general operational risks, permit to work, etc.
Below training programs should be considered as mandatory.
- HSE Induction
- Training on Firefighting and other emergency procedures.
- First-aid Training
- Accident and incident reporting procedures.
- Training on Personal protective equipment requirements.
- Introduction to the safe systems of work and permit systems.
- Introduction to the risk assessment system.
- Traffic safety and security systems
B. Technical training/ Skills development training:
- Training on operating / maintenance procedures
- Training on method statements,
- Occupational health and hygiene monitoring,
- Plant and machine operation related
- Incident investigation
- Training on HAZOP, etc
ii. Safety communication and awareness
The organization must establish and implement the appropriate means, methods / procedures for effective communication in order to make its staff / workers aware of health and safety.
Safety communication can take many forms and helps the organization develop and improve the positive safety culture. Here are the main modes of safety communication generally used in industries.
a) Oral safety communication
b) Written safety communication
c) Graphical or pictorial safety communication
There are many ways and forums to communicate health and safety information to workers and improve their level of awareness.
i) Safety and health induction must be interlocked with gate pass/ security pass process where general workplace hazards and company rules can be communicated. Awareness on company safety and health policy is mandatory for all staff and workers including visitors.
ii) Conduct daily safety toolbox talk before start of any work.
iii) safety Picture/poster/visual aid is the best way to communicate the desired message as there is no barriers of languages. Safety signage should be displayed at prominent locations to cautions or alert workmen.
iv) Email/ newsletter in local languages, display on notice board, etc
v) Conduct regular meeting to share the HSE information.
vi) Organize training with video aids.
vii) Arranged weekly/monthly motivational programs for rewarding with small token and communicate the desired messages on health and safety.
viii) Carry out routine inspections and advice safe work procedure on spot.
ix) Share incident/ accident case studies.
x) Develop safety handbook and distribute to staff and workers during safety induction, etc
The most important safety information to provide to workers is about the health and safety risks identified in their risk assessments and the essential precautionary and protective measures to control the risks. It must be specific to their work activities. Other important information to make the workmen fully aware on safety and health should be;
Awareness on safe evacuation procedure, company HSE policy and other rules, Operating / maintenance / inspection / HSE procedures and safe work practices, General hazards and risk in the workplace Ex. Information on H2S must be communicated to everyone in the oil and gas industries, the location of welfare facilities, safe movement around the workplace, worker consultation arrangements, general safety rules, welfare facilities, etc.
iii. Participation & Consultation
Employee participation and consultation is a very important aspect of the safety management system for developing a positive safety culture in the organization. It helps motivate workers through empowerment, that is, they will feel ownership of safety and health and thus contributes to improving their safety behavior. They will start participating in the safety initiative and the improvement program. Consulting workers on the decision-making process encourages their interest and ownership of health and safety.
ILO-C155, article 12 and ILO-R164, article 20 provide detailed guidance on worker participation and consultation. It has been observed that in some countries the employer is required to consult their workers on health and safety issues, so this is a legal obligation. In many countries, it is not legal requirements, still they have consult to their workers on below safety issues.
a) Any changes in the existing safety control measures which may affect the safety and health of the workers.
b) Employer must consult the workers while appointing safety practitioner.
c) When employer is developing the safety and health training plans, he must consult the workers.
d) Before introduction of new process or technology that may affect the safety and health of workers in workplace. etc.
Example of safety management system
The basic framework of safety management system is common in all types of industries. Hazardous industries must develop a robust safety management system by identifying all workplace hazard including hazards associated with their routine and nonroutine activities for sustainable business. Identification of all type of hazards i.e hazards associated with plant equipment, process, chemicals, activities, job factor and human factors provide the solid base for risk assessment and to develop the accident prevention programs.
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To framework the robust safety management system, organizations must assess their safety and health requirements based on their associated hazards, type of neighboring industries, neighboring communities and all other stakeholder. Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) and environment impact assessment study (EIA) may be considered as input for developing any safety management system.
Here are some safety management system examples framed by different international agencies.
a) The International Labor Organization (ILO), United nations agency, provides the basic guideline on framework of safety management system in ILO-OSH 2001.
b) OHSAS-18001, Occupation health and safety management system introduced by British and Polish standard (from 1999 to 2018)
c) ISO-45001: occupational safety and health management system framed by international organization for standardization. It is more related to certification purpose.
d) OSHA, The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration also provide the framework and guidelines on safety management system
e) HS(G)65, provide the framework and guidelines on safety management system by British Health and Safety Executive.
All standards are providing the guideline on safety management system, adoption of standards is purely based on the type of industries or business and their location countries.
Safety management system in aviation industry
Federal aviation administration (FAA) provide the detail knowledge and awareness on aviation safety management system. The framework of aviation safety management system is similar to SMS explained in above part of this article.
As the hazard exposure to number of occupants (peoples/passenger in aircraft) is higher and consequences may be more significant, high level of safety management system with zero tolerance in compliance is required.
The major challenges in aviation safety management system is to manage the sudden changes in weather or extreme weather condition which is out of human control.
Human factor is very important in aviation safety management system to facilitate quick precise decision by pilot and traffic control operator in crisis scenarios.
The aviation industry has evolved over the years and maintaining the highest safety standards. Aviation safety management system helps to follow a continuous process of improvement in air safety.
To ensure continual improvement in aviation safety management system, below major factors must be assured effectively.
i. Incident/accidents investigation and accident causation theory
ii. Positive safety culture
iii) Human factors.
In the early years of aviation in the 1950s there were several numbers of aircraft accident happened frequently and investigating team believed that improvement in technology and focusing on technical reliability would be able to reduce the number of accidents. Thus, in earlier days, peoples were more focused on technical upgradation but after improvements in technology, accidents still continue to happened.
Then in the 1970s, the focus shifted to human factors and quality management, which had a stress on standardization and consistency, but even that it didn’t succeed to prevent the accidents although quality management did reduce the number of accidents.
In 1996 , the aviation industry looked at accident causation through the prism of James reasons theory that accidents are not the result of a single factor but a chain of events. Then the attention of the airline industry tern to focus on human factor and they understood that people can react to the same situation differently based on their thoughts, experiences and state of mind.
Here the basic concept emerge that the entire aviation organization is responsible for any accident or inversely the entire organization may contribute to stoppage of an accident.
In earlier days, another major factor in accident investigation approaches was they more emphasis for answers to “what happened”, “when did it happen” and “who is to blame”. But presently, investigation team is emphasizing on “how it happened” and “why it happened”. Thus, blame culture finished and more focused on ensuring that it should not happen again and aimed at improvement of aviation safety management system.
After implementation of safety management system, aviation industries able to manage the continual improvement of safety standards and processes has brought number of aircraft crashes down.
Safety management system software
Safety management system software in form of e-tool may be more useful in current situations as it provides the best industrial practices related to your type of industry. These software’s provide different module based practical assistance on safety performance monitoring and its trend and monitoring and measurement of return on safety investment.
Safety management system software may help for measuring, monitoring and communicating the information on
a) Management of change
b) Risk assessment, gas dispersion modeling, etc
c) Environment impact assessment
d) Crises management and mass communication
e) Incident reporting and investigation
f) Audit management
f) legal compliances
g) Workplace inspection and reporting of unsafe conditions
h) industrial hygiene survey.
i) Health monitoring of workers/ staff and maintaining master data
j) Safety communications and safety alert,
k) Workers stress monitoring and record keeping, etc
Below is the list of safety management software available in market
i) Ensure compliance – Pharmacovigilance audits: it provides the software services for audit management in Pharma industries.
ii) Crises Control software: This software is for crises communication and helps organizations to notify the emergency call in fastest way.
iii) incy.io: This software helps organization to manage its incident reporting and investigation system. It also assist for follow-up actions and handle root cause analysis.
iv) Safety Management Software by ASK: It is a multi-featured software help management to manage all aspect of safety management system requirements by managing real-time EHS records and compliances on fingertips.
v) QUENTIC safety management software: It help management to maintain the documentation and assess the risks, determine safeguards, reduce the potential for accidents and hazards to health. It is suitable for any small, medium or large industries and built according to OHSAS 18001 and new ISO 45001.
vi) EHS management software: It help to manage all aspect of safety management system including risk assessment, incident reporting and investigation.
Safety management system template
Here you can find different safety management templates which we are continuously updating, all these templates are free, you can download and use for your organization
i) Incident investigation checklist
ii) Incident investigation report template
iii) Near-miss report
iv) Portable power tool inspection
v) Job safety analysis format
vi) HSE induction format
Role of Safety specialist in Safety Management System
It is legal requirement in almost all countries
that organizations (considering the number of employees/workers) must have
access to appropriate competent people to give them health and safety advice.
These safety specialists or "safety practitioners" may work within
the organization or may be brought in from outside as consultant. They are
responsible for giving correct advice to the organization so that the
organization can comply its legal obligations and achieve its policy objective
& targets.
Their roles and responsibilities are:
- Providing advice and guidance in implementation of SMS & health and safety standards.
- Promoting a positive health and safety culture.
- Advising management on accident prevention, accident reporting and investigations.
- Developing and implementing policy.
- Directing the development of adequate risk assessments.
- Identifying training needs.
- Monitoring health and safety performance.
Other than above, He must guide management to
maintain below health and safety records
- PPEs issue register.
- Record of statutory training and skill development.
- Record of workers competency.
- Record of workers health and safety violation and disciplinary actions.
- Record of workers medical fitness and periodic medical check.
- Record of Hazard and risk assessment and communication to workers, etc
Safety Specialist/ practitioners competency
Safety practitioners must be qualified and experienced
in health and safety. Below framework of their competency is suggested.
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Competency of Safety Specialist |
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Safety management system course
Below reputed institutes are organizing, providing
and conducting regular as well as correspondence courses on safety management
system worldwide.
NEBOSH safety courses
There
is huge demand and most recognized NEBOSH courses are a valuable introduction
to occupational safety and health management system. They are suitable for any
employee, at any level, in any sector.
These courses are of two types ie. certificate courses
and diploma courses
Certificate safety courses
- National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
- International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
- National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management
- International Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management
- National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety
- International Certificate in Construction Health and Safety
- NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Process Safety Management
- NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence
- National Certificate in the Management of Health and Well-being at Work
- International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety
NEBOSH Diploma safety courses
- National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- International Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- National Diploma in Environmental Management
IOSH safety courses
- Technical Member (Tech IOSH)
- Graduate Member (Grad IOSH)
- Chartered Member (CMIOSH)
- Chartered Fellow (CFIOSH)
Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
Certified safety professional is the highest
qualification in the filed of safety management and certificate is offered by
board of safety professionals. The accreditation is used in the United States.
Below is the basic qualification requiring becoming
a certified safety professional
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in any field or an associate in safety
- The associate degree must include at least four courses with at least 12 semesters
- 4 years of safety experience at professional level.
Below qualifications may make you eligible to become
CSP
- Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- NEBOSH National or International Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- Diploma/Certificate in Industrial Safety, as issued by the State Government Departments/Boards of Technical Education, Government of India
- Fire and Safety Forum Advanced & Post-Graduate and Master Diploma and
Conclusion:
Safety Management System (SMS) provides the systematic & structural approach to
manage workplace health and safety within an organization. Safety
management system is a systematic approach to managing the
safety, including the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities,
policies, and procedures Competent Safety practitioners guiding/ advising
management to develop, implement and maintain the safety management system. These
are also called as elements of safety management system according
to ILO-OSH 2001 and OHSAS-81001 which is applicable to all types of industries
and organizations
The main
components of safety management system are Safety policy and safety
objectives, Safety Risk Management (SRM), Safety Assurance and Safety Promotion.
These are generally called as four pillars of safety management system.
Safety specialist/ practitioner are the main drivers of safety management
system and their major role is to support and guide the management for
effective development and implementation of system. They must be competent enough
to give guidance on legal requirement and help organization to monitor the
performance of safety management system.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very informative and well explained article. The history of the safety management system made for an interesting read. How many of us are aware of the facts behind the implementation of SMS? I, for one, had no idea about these things. It is nice to learn something new every day! My brother lives in the US now, but earlier he worked for one of the top Ups battery dealers in Chennai .
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