Quick Win Safety Management : Answers to Your Top 100 Safety Management Questions

 Content: INTRODUCTION; POLICY; Q1 What is health and safety?; Q2 What is a safety management system?; Q3 How is a safety management system organised?; Q4 What is the background to the ILO-OSH 2001 safety management system?; Q5 What are some of the obstacles to safety management?; 'Risk-mongers' spreading the wrong message; Contradictory messages; Lack of SME resources; Q6 What are the most common hazards in the workplace?; Q7 What is a policy statement?; Q8 What policy statements do we need?; Q9 What is the process for writing policy statements? Q10 Who should write our safety management policy statements?Q11 What does an occupational safety and health policy look like?; Sample health and safety policy statement; Q12 How do we communicate our occupational safety and health policy statement?; Q13 What should be included in additional policy statements?; Q14 What is meant by worker participation?; ORGANISATION; Q15 Who is responsible for safety in an organisation?; Q16 How do we define responsibilities and accountabilities?; Q17 What does a job description look like?; Q18 Why is training an important part of a safety management system? Q19 How do we define competence?Q20 How do we develop safety training?; General considerations; Specific training considerations; Q21 How do we identify our safety training requirements?; Size of the organisation; Jurisdictions; Scope and complexity of operations; Management structure; Approach to training; Q22 How do we control safety management system documents?; Q23 How do we format corporate safety documents?; Q24 How do we format a work procedure?; Q25 What are management procedures?; Q26 How do we document management procedures?; MP-1 Organisation; MP-2 Hazard Prevention. MP-3 Safe Work PracticesMP-4 Evaluation and Improvement; Q27 What is communication?; Q28 What information needs to be communicated within a safety management system and how?; Q29 Who should receive health and safety information?; PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION; Q30 What is an initial review?; Q31 What should be in an initial review?; Q32 What is meant by planning, development and implementation?; Q33 What safety standards should we adopt?; Legal requirements; Good practice and Codes of Practice; Industry requirements; Senior management requirements; Q34 What are safety management objectives? Q35 How do we decide what occupational safety and health objectives are required?Q36 When should we review our occupational safety and health objectives?; Q37 What is planned preventative maintenance?; Q38 What are the key elements of a planned preventative maintenance system?; Q39 What can be covered under a planned preventative maintenance system?; Q40 What are safety plans?; Q41 What is risk assessment?; Identify the hazards; Decide who may be harmed; Evaluate the risks and decide on controls; Write down your findings; Review and update your assessments.
 Abstract:             QUICK WIN SAFETY MANAGEMENT is aimed at entrepreneurs and business managers who want to understand how to protect their business investment, meet their legal obligations and cut their costs. By using a simple, effective and internationally-recognised safety management model, entrepreneurs and business managers can learn the basics of effective safety management, including the principal safety management components, how they fit together and relate to each other and how improvements in safety performance can be made and measured