Risk Assessment and Management
- Identify, evaluate, and address safety risks and emerging trends.
- Use regular, periodic, and objective assessments to ensure compliance with the company and applicable legal requirements.
Leadership Commitment
- Integration of health & safety into business plans, results, performance reviews and other business routines.
- Regular and visible leadership involvement in health & safety communication and improvement activities, including annual updates of the organization’s health & safety performance goals and objectives.
Engaged & Capable Employees
Provide clearly defined roles and responsibilities, training, communication systems and participation opportunities to promote effective engagement from employees at all levels.
Safety Culture
- Promote a positive safety culture through active engagement at all levels of the organization, including system leaders, employees, networks, and contractors.
- Enable an action oriented positive safety culture.
- Establish processes and learning teams that regularly evaluate and reinforce safe work behaviors, understand the context of the way work is done, and ensure that effective procedures are in place.
- Ensure senior leadership at each worksite sets the example, promotes safe work behaviors, and ensures the necessary tools and resources are available for safe work to occur.
- Ensure employees are encouraged, supported, and empowered to participate in safety processes.
- Ensure employee feedback is solicited to identify strengths and weaknesses of the safety program and take appropriate action.
- Establish processes to ensure safety trends are identified and analyzed with effective action plans established.
Objectives and Performance Tracking
Establish and regularly track the organization’s health & safety performance goals and objectives.
