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DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL BEST
PRACTICE IN
HOSPITAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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Safety Projects International Inc. has been developing
health & safety management systems and auditing best practice organizations
including general industry, Marine, Construction, Aviation and Health Care and
Offshore Oil & Gas for over 40 years.
Our International clients “WALK
THE TALK” and have each embarked on a
step-by-step program of progressive improvement.
This introduction to implementing a health and safety
management system is a starting point for any workplace who wishes to prevent
both injury / illness to staff and provide improved quality and production into
their workplace; it is based on a simple approach to achieve best practice.
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International Best Practice
Workplaces that have benchmarked their health and safety
management systems have consistently identified many of the elements identified
on the prevention tree as essential to the implementation of their health and safety
management system.
The two manuals can help you benchmark your own health and
safety processes, procedures and practices and participate in a benchmarking
initiative with other work places internationally.
The ideas we share in this safety management system will
help your organization to continuously improve; it will help you maximize
profits, by minimizing losses, your company will grow stronger just like the
tree.
One thing we have learned over our 40 years in business is
that a “best practice” is not a “magic bullet”. Any practice can only be successful when it is
appropriate to the workplace situation and is implemented with commitment &
leadership.
This model provides a framework for any workplace or organization
to build a successful health & safety management system which will
ultimately lead to a quality grading in the 5 Star Health & Safety Management System™
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The Prevention Tree
The “Prevention
Tree” represents Safety Projects International Inc’s vision of an effective
health and safety management system.
Using the analogy of the tree, we can describe the essential elements of
a health and safety management system.
A tree may have many leaves but it will not thrive
unless it has a healthy root system, trunk and branches. The roots of a successful safety management
system are leadership and commitment by executive management, and the workplace
culture that values and reinforces health and safety in all operations.
At the base of the tree is a health and safety policy,
which lays the function for the program by expressing the commitment & leadership
of management towards excellence in health and safety performance. It is the trunk of the tree – what holds
everything else up, as is a system for managing occupational health and safety
– for setting goals and making sure that everyone knows their responsibilities
and is held accountable for them.
The branches of the tree are the functions that ensure
employee participation and effective communications and training, and that
recognize and motivate good health and safety performance for both staff and
contractors.
The leaves are the activities performed in the workplace
to anticipate, recognize, assess and control health and safety hazards, and to
manage disability if injury and illness do occur.
When all these elements are in place and functioning
well, any workplace will be successful in creating safe and healthy tasks,
workplaces and behaviors, and the tree will bear fruit – fruit that includes
healthy and safe workers, contractors and neighbors who are confident of
returning home safely, in addition to good employee morale, lower costs, and a
more successful business.
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How to use the 5 Star Health & Safety Management System
These two manuals describe a number of elements that
correspond with the health and safety essentials depicted by the prevention
tree. Each element in each of the manuals contains three parts. The first part includes examples of practices
documented in case studies, health and safety journals, and implemented by top performers audited by Safety Projects
International Inc.
The second part includes a series of questions about your
company work practices on that element.
The third part asks a few questions about your organizations continuous
improvement efforts.
The manuals are designed for flexibility; browse it in
whatever sequence interests you. Complete
any or all of the elements. Do it in
short sittings, use it for workshop or training material, do it all at once,
divide among staff teams and share responses – whatever suits your pace and
style.
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Health and Safety Management
System elements
Based on our 40 years in the International safety
consultancy business and ongoing
research Safety Projects International have identified some of the key
elements required for an effective health and safety management system. In the future, your workplace may expand the
two manuals to include more of the sub-elements to incorporate specific practices
and procedures in its journey towards continuous improvement and system developed in your organization.
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Some initial questions about the 5 Star health & safety management system™
If you have taken a decision
to improve health and safety in your workplace within the last 10 years, what
were the best things you did? Which are the most important activities that have
bore the most fruit to help you improve your health and safety management
system?
Which
of the above elements do you think are most responsible for your work places’
success? Which ones do you think your organization
is particularly excelled at?
Should
users wish to comment on any aspect of this 5 Star Health & Safety
Management System™, or would like to purchase any or all of our professional
Power Point training courses on this system or view any of the other audit
tools we can be contacted at the following co-ordinates:
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