Principles of Safety Management

• Aims at eliminating unsafe acts and unsafe conditions

by applying management techniques
1. Safety is an important management function of every
organization
2. Accidents are caused by unsafe acts unsafe conditions
3. Behind one accident there are several chance misses
(One root cause and several supplementary causes)
4. Unsafe acts and unsafe conditions can be identified in
advance eliminated at the root
5. For achieving ultimate safety, each link in the chain must
be healthful (Healthy safety chain)
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6. Safety management systems and human Resource
Department in safety, are the tools of every
organizations for ensuring safety (Need to be trained
well)
7. Safety is a Line Function as well as Matrix Function
(Line function – Hierarchal line of authority)
(Matrix Function – Network of authority–Interaction)
8. Bad work harms others
9. Unsafe acts or Unsafe work today may result in a
disaster after a lapse of time