Safety Talk Box 07- "Health & Safety Management & PDCA Cycle"

Dear All,

Greetings of the day!

Hope all are working in a safe and healthy manner.

This is a topic introduced by Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). Institute of Occupational Safety and Health is registered in England and Wales. IOSH is a charted body for Health and safety professionals.

With the studies given by IOSH, we being the members of organization can set standards and support, develop and connect our team workers with resources, guidance, events and training. We can be the voice of our team workers and campaign on issues that affect millions of working people.

The management system can help you manage health and safety in the organization. Most health and safety or environment management systems are based around the principle of ‘plan, do, check and act’. This is also known as Deming Cycle or Shewhart Cycle or PDCA Cycle. 

The key benefits for you and organization of introducing a health and safety management system (HSMS) are: -

·         * Complying with legislative and other requirements

·         * Helping you to deliver the policy (to make objective & targets achievable)

·         * Enabling improved management of safety and health risks

·         * Providing competitive edge (Bench-marking)

·         * Providing senergy with good business management.

Elements of Health and Safety management systems-

·         * Leadership and worker’s involvement: Leadership is an essential part of a health and safety management system- attitudes to safety and health are determined by top management and other individuals, not the organization’s size. To achieve an effective control of safety and health issues, the organization must have clear direction.

·         * Policy: Say what your intentions are—a statement of commitment by the organization’s top management to comply with safety and health law and meet ethical and professional responsibilities for safety and health.

·         * Planning: Plan what you are going to do—a plan for risk management, emergency preparedness and response, with identification of legal and other standards.

·         * Risk Profiling: Identify hazards and evaluate the risks—it’s all about assessing risks, identify what could cause harm, who it could harm and how. It enables an organization to determine what problems there are and to determine the risk management priorities.

·         * Implement the plan: How you are going to do it—a process of putting the plans in place and getting involved in all the necessary activities, from risk assessment through safe system of work, to audit.

·         * Collect data: What type of data do you need to look at? – a process of collecting proactive and reactive data, including job-specific training, risk assessments, number of incidents, injuries and ill health.

·         * Measure performance: Find out how well you’re doing – from reactive data (for example, on injuries and ill health) to proactive data (such as on inspections and training). This will give you an indication of whether your actions are working. Audits will help you to judge whether the whole system is working. You’ll need to make adjustments as necessary.

·         * Learn Lessons: Did you learn anything? – learn from findings of the incident investigations, audits and reviews, in order to find gaps in the in the management system to prevent incidents, injury and ill health and to improve the process and overall performance.

·         * Review performance: Does the system work? – an evaluation of the overall design and resourcing of the system, compared with the performance achieved. It shows the commitment to manage safely and health risks proactively so that accidents and ill health are reduced and/or the system achieves its goals using fewer resources.

Always remember that all these methods have weaknesses but some are less prone to failure than others. So implementing something in your daily works will make a big change in your site work environment.

!! You can prevent workers from being unsafe by controlling the risks !!

So control the risks & manage your site Safely !!!

THINK SAFETY WORK SAFELY

This all is for your information and further actions required