The key elements required for good Health and Safety Management are similar to good finance and business management. Generally companies that are a business success are usually found to have good Health and Safety management systems in place.
The six key elements that together form a good Health and Safety system.
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Auditing
The auditing of an organisation can be done at any time and is a very useful tool to see how well an organisation is achieving at the time if the audit. |
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Commitment to Policy
The Policy clearly identifies that the senior management have a commitment to Health and Safety within the organisation. |
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Organisational Development
The development stage requires that the organisation will identify, appoint and train individual employees to help the Company achieve the Health and Safety objectives. |
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| Planning & Implementation Development
Once the key individuals have been appointed the next stage (planning) will need to consider all aspects of training, costing, delivery dates so that the implementation of objectives can be scheduled. The objectives will include Risk Assessment methodologies, dates for completion. |
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Measuring Performance
Companies can measure their Health and Safety performance in a variety of ways either by the proactive or reactive approach. i.e. proactively by ensuring that injuries to employees do not occur – using preventative measures (such as risk assessments) or reactively by studying the accident book entries and injury statistics. |
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Reviewing Performance
The reviewing of a Company’s performance can be conducted at any time and the performance indicators used to illustrate how well the Company is achieving. |
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