Occupational health and safety must be managed by the leadership. Expected outcomes from goals promoting desired behaviors and the collaborative development and management of any supporting HSE Systems must have the ownership, endorsement and buy in from all levels of management. Line management and senior management must ensure accountability is concurrent and when gaps occur or are discovered they are addressed quickly.
Occupational health and safety (HSE) personnel must function as facilitators and subject matter experts were they consult / advise leadership throughout the organization. Some additional services that can be provided, just to name a few are; cause analysis investigations, monitoring and measuring of the organizational safety culture.
If real results can be affected by looking at root causes, then the HSE professional must know how to go deeper than just the surface contributing factors. Analysis of superficial findings will not deliver enough information to allow for an effective corrective action.
If unplanned events or incidents are caused by a management system gap, the HSE professional must be able to help identify these gaps and facilitate leadership in closing them. The HSE professional must stay up to date and current on new tools which will help him/her prevent their organization from repeatedly making the same mistakes. However, some of the tried and true tools are still useful but may require sharpening or upgrading. To do this the HSE professional must be well read and networked with colleagues in various industries.
I personally find the ever evolving face of safety exciting. I believe it's mostly because safety deals with people and people are always changing. Their objectives, their goals, their desires and even their ethics and morals are always on the move. Saving lives and improving the quality of life at the worksite is always the right thing and doing the right thing is never easy, if it were everyone would do it….
Occupational health and safety (HSE) personnel must function as facilitators and subject matter experts were they consult / advise leadership throughout the organization. Some additional services that can be provided, just to name a few are; cause analysis investigations, monitoring and measuring of the organizational safety culture.
If real results can be affected by looking at root causes, then the HSE professional must know how to go deeper than just the surface contributing factors. Analysis of superficial findings will not deliver enough information to allow for an effective corrective action.
If unplanned events or incidents are caused by a management system gap, the HSE professional must be able to help identify these gaps and facilitate leadership in closing them. The HSE professional must stay up to date and current on new tools which will help him/her prevent their organization from repeatedly making the same mistakes. However, some of the tried and true tools are still useful but may require sharpening or upgrading. To do this the HSE professional must be well read and networked with colleagues in various industries.
I personally find the ever evolving face of safety exciting. I believe it's mostly because safety deals with people and people are always changing. Their objectives, their goals, their desires and even their ethics and morals are always on the move. Saving lives and improving the quality of life at the worksite is always the right thing and doing the right thing is never easy, if it were everyone would do it….
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