Safety risk management is a key component of any safety management system (SMS) and involves identifying safety hazards to your operations and assessing the risks and mitigating them.Continue Reading

The Health and Safety (H&S) Assurance function is responsible for monitoring the appointed Principal Contractors and Elected Clients against key criteria including: Legislation and associated best practice guidance Approved and Joint Codes of Practice The Works Information (contractual arrangements) documentContinue Reading

The term ‘safety argument’ is sometimes used as a synonym for the safety case. Here, we use the safety argument to mean that part of the safety case combines the safety evidence, showing that the evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that the system is acceptably safe.Continue Reading

The safety management system is a formal, top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.Continue Reading

Safety measures are activities and precautions carried out to reduce the probability of hazard occurrence and increase safety or protection.Continue Reading

A safety case’s intent is to provide a straightforward, thorough, and logically consistent argument, backed up by evidence, that an item is free of unacceptable risk when used in the proper context.Continue Reading

The purpose of a Safety Case is to demonstrate the internal/ external assurance that its management system͛s risk-reducing controls related to the HSE aspects of its operations has been controlled/ managed in such a way that the risks have been reduced to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) levels. This document aspired to maximise awareness,...Continue Reading

Safety case aims to summarise relevant studies and it is typically segregated into several sections which are presented in the following (such as): – Part 1: Introduction and Summary – Part 2: Facility Description – Part 3: Facility Safety Management System – Part 4: Formal Safety Assessment – Part 5: Safety-Critical Element and Performance Standards...Continue Reading

A safety case is a logical and hierarchical set of documents that describes the risk in terms of the hazards presented by the facility, site, and modes of operation. Safety case includes facility description, health, safety, and environment system, formal safety assessments and emergency response plan of an organisation.Continue Reading

A risk matrix is a tool that is normally used to assess the level of risk and used to support the decision-making process.Continue Reading