7/26/2019 The System of Safety Process Poster
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Any person in a supervisory position can cause the company to
be
prosecuted and be held personally liable for both criminal
andcivil proceedings. The following points should be considered
from a management point of view
Common Law
Based on past experiences similar to current
situaons, with the excepon of a few
technical excepons, common law is bound to
follow earlier decisions of courts of higher or
equal status
Vicarious liability
The liability of a principal such as an employee
giving a responsibility to one of his agents to act on
their behalf. The employer is sll principally
responsible unless proven by the organizaon that
he/she has not authorized or omied the delegated
task that resulted in any liabilies.
Criminal liability
Businesses or people behaviours that are
idened as incriminang are prosecuted
and convicted by the State just as any other
criminal oence
Civil
Liability
In cases where a supervisor or organizaon does not act in
the best interest of workers and it results in an losses of
some form, the workers have the recourse to bring a civil
case against the individual or the company for
compensaon, reparaon or a specic compliance
Administrative Liability
Company receives an administrave ne as a result of
a breach of safety related statutes of a member of
S FETY ND THE L W
LEGAL LIABILITY DOES NOT AL-
WAYS ARISE AS A RESULT OF AN
INTENTIONAL HARMFUL ACT OR
OF SOME PROVEN OVERSIGHT
SUCH AS NEGLIGENCE
The focus of the law is to ensure that the one who
was negligent should compensate the one who has
lost something as a result of the action of the
negligent party, even if that action is otherwise
blameless under the law
SAFE T Y P E RFO RM AN C E M AN AGE M E N T
Safety
standards
Safety
Performance
review
Performance
audits
Safety
performance
audits
Safety
Performance
audit factors
MANAGEMENT
ARRANGEMENTS
RISK CONTROL
SYSTEMS
Practical workplace
precautions
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Safety Performance Management
Safety Management consists mainly of the following Key points:
Devoluon
of Decision Making; Accountability for Safety Performance;
Measurement
of Benchmarkingof Safety Performance; Responsiveness by
Employersto
Workers Safety Iniaves
Before any form of safety performance management can begin,
an organizaon needs to rst set standards . These standards
are
based on things such as housekeeping , statutory compliance,
dealing with hazards, maintenance standards, training for
standards and
safety, safe work procedures, design and competency
Safety performance review
Next, the safety performance
should be reviewed to make
sure the workplace has been
performing safely and accord-
ing to requirements. These re-
views can be carried out by
reviewing the safety program of
the organizaon, auding per-
formance, using triparte
mechanisms, using strategies to
manage the planning process and creang a forum for
safety where workers can discuss improvements
REVIEWS ARE BASED ON:
Collecng informaon
on: eciency,
eecveness, reliability
Idenfying the best:
pracce, ideas,
experience
Facilitang safety in the
workshop
Seng missions to nd
facts that can enhance
the work experience in
terms of safety
Safety performance audits:
Lastly, audits are a form of ongoing
maintenance to connually monitor
the level of safety in the organizaon.
These are done through examining
documentaon proof quality, visual
inspecon of the workplace, evaluang
accident stascs and interviewing
workers to invesgate and adopt their
views of the workplace status
Factors of Safety
performance audits:
Compliance to safety
standards and
benchmarks
Comparing standards
and benchmarks to
internaonal standards
Reviewing the
adequacy of
management safety
capabilies
Accuracy and relevancy
of informaon
