EHS Organizations: Safety Culture and Risk Management Report 2017

This report provides a detailed analysis of safety culture and risk management within organizations, highlighting the importance of these concepts in preventing workplace disasters, using the Chernobyl disaster as a case study. It explores the integration of safety culture and risk management in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) organizations, focusing on key issues such as leadership, commitment, and communication. The report discusses how risk management can be applied to various areas, including incident tracking, job safety analysis (JSA), and corrective actions, emphasizing the role of risk-based matrices and hazard control. It concludes that effective safety culture and risk management are crucial for recognizing and minimizing risks, ultimately improving organizational safety and compliance.

Safety Issues
REPORT

Introduction
 The report will discuss in detail about the concept of safety culture and
risk management in an organization. The recent example Chernobyl
disaster is the best case to show the impact of ignoring the safety of
an organisation. It is constantly argued that this culture shows a new
method of conceptualizing the process of handling the risk as well as
management in company and other similar contexts.

Safety culture
 It mainly focus on the workplace related disasters which are a result of
the complete breakdown of the organization policies. For the good
safety culture. The commitment to the safety, realistic practices for the
handling of the hazards and the continuous learning and the care is
considered important.

Continued
 This might also help in proving it as a heuristic technique to aid any
kind of risk management based strategies to complement the present
risk assessment practice (Fadel et al, 2015). The report will discuss in
detail about the existence of safety culture and risk management in
Environmental health and safety organizations.

Defining safety culture and risk
management
 The primary goal of risk management is to achieve or strike a balance
between performance at the peak of one’s potential and maintain a
safe work culture in effective manner by controlling the well-known
hazards. To maintain the safety culture, the focus is on the attitudes as
well as the risk management which is considered important. The key
issues are the leadership, involvement, commitment and the
communication. (Hull & Bowman, 2014).

EHS organisation
 To promote a safer place of work and maintain elevated level of
compliance with current regulatory agencies like Occupational Safety
and Health Administration also called as OSHA and Environment health
and safety also called as EHS companies must rapidly and impactfully
address and minimize all the incidences that have taken place (Lopez,
2016).

Explanation
 But it is also very challenging to decide which threat can pose the most
complicated risk as opposed to which risk is not very hazardous for the
company. Following are the areas where integration capabilities of the
EHS system integration can be applied:

Incidents
 Incidents: the system of EHS commonly called as track based incident
happen across a company enterprise. Risk management can also help
in streamlining the process through proper filtering.

Analysis
 There are tools like the risk register which enable the safety manager
to properly filter the incident based data by low level of risk and by
using the risk based matrix (Paul, 2016).

Job Safety Analysis
 Job safety analysis: the concept of risk management also provides a
constant as well as quantitative based benchmarking for JSA also
called as Job Safety Analysis by taking an active approach to mitigate
the job risk. Here, JSA helps in breaking down the job description into
single step and listing all kind of prospective hazards that can happen
at every possible step.

Hazards
 The moment hazards can be recognized. Current JSA can execute the
control for every step to save the hazards for happening. This is where
risk management plays an important part (Rogers et al, 2017). Risk
management is an impactful manner of assessing the safety for every
job step in JSA.

Analysis
 Corrective reaction: at the time of using risk management to manage
varied incidents, the current EHS system can apply risk to the process
of corrective action, to decide whether a corrective action was
impactful. During the process of corrective action, the main cause
based analysis is conducted to evaluate or investigate an incident.

Actions taken
 The control of the major accident hazards need to focus on the process
safety management where the conventional safety has been expressed
to be important. The reduced injury rates are by only improving the
safety culture with reducing the propensity for the error of front line
staff. (Sanz-Calcedo et al, 2015).

Conclusion
 The concept of safety culture and risk management is right means of
recognizing the risk and minimising it by saving it from recurring. When
the company has applied risk management to its EHS system. (Sanz-
Calcedo et al, 2015).

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