Safe System of Work
A Safe System of Work is a set of safety processes supervisors and employees apply to their work tasks. It improves people’s situation awareness and increases safe behaviors, resulting in strong safety margins.
Benefits of a Safe System of Work
A Safe System of Work can make a huge impact towards improving your safety results. It impacts the safety and risk relationship in real-time.
Here are the main benefits:
- Puts supervisors and employees in charge of their own safety. They can apply safety processes to impact their safety margins when their work interfaces with risk.
- Increases situation awareness. People learn to cue on hazards and respond with a safety margin, resulting in a high rate of safe behaviors.
- Makes people proactive about their safety. They can plan, execute, observe, and measure their safety margins during the work shift, rather than waiting to react to injuries.
Empower Supervisors to Take Charge of Safety
Placing a Safe System of Work into the hands of supervisors is one of the most powerful moves you can make to improve your safety results.
This solution impacts the safety and risk inverse relationship in a big way. When employees perform work tasks, they interact with risk. This is the hot spot where your safety margins have to insulate employees.
Supervisors are close to this interface and best-positioned to reinforce the correct safety margin. That’s why you should empower supervisors to take charge with a Safe System of Work.
Increase Situation Awareness
Situation Awareness is being alert to hazards and deciding to apply a safety margin in response.
SafeTask® is a course that teaches people a safe system of work, or how to engage their Situation Awareness. It improves safety margins, converts at-risk to safe behaviors, and can trap human errors.
Our proven methodology increases people’s Situation Awareness for the safety margin while they work and interface with risk. It teaches people how to:
- Cue on hazards in the danger zone.
- Make a decision to apply the safety margin.
- Reinforce the correct safety margin with safety contacts.
- Measure safe behaviors and improve safety margins with an action plan.
People learn to impact the safety and risk relationship when they perform the work that is exposing them to risk.
Make Your People Proactive
SafeTask® teaches your people how to be proactive about their safety.
Supervisors learn how to measure safety and take action during the work shift. This method replaces reacting to month-end injury rates.
Supervisors take action in real-time to adjust safety margins based on what they observe. They learn to impact the safety and risk relationship during every work shift.
Our clients in the top quartile of safety results consistently produce a mean Safety Observation Score >91%. This score is how a supervisor measures the application of your safety margins.
Takeaway
You can improve your safety results by implementing a Safe System of Work that makes your people proactive. This solution impacts the safety and risk relationship by increasing situation awareness, reinforcing safety margins, and measuring safety before accidents happen.
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Objectives
When you engage with us, we can guide you how to add a Safe System of Work to your existing safety approach and teach supervisors how to apply it every work shift.
You can complete these objectives with us:
- Conduct an Assessment to identify strengths and gaps of your current safety processes.
- Prepare a plan to guide your staff and supervisors with its implementation.
- Learn how to implement and sustain a Safe System of Work on your own.
- Develop documentation for each safety process.
- Launch each safety process with your staff and work teams and document the training.
- Monitor your process implementation with a scorecard.
- Conduct regular external audits to continuously improve how your people apply a Safe System of Work.
Offerings
Here are the service offerings you can access to implement a Safety System of Work:
- Visual Framework
- Gap Assessment
- Implementation Scorecard
- SafeTask® Training Courses
- Reference Book
- Written Practice for each Safety Process
- Implementation Checklists
- 90-Day Action Plans
- Monthly Group Coaching
- External Audit
- Forms Library
We’ll design a custom service plan to guide you how to implement a Safe System of Work.