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Yesterday's risk management practices are no longer adequate to deal with today's High Hazard threats and they need to evolve.
The revised version of ISO 31000 is focused on the effect of incomplete knowledge of events or circumstances on organizations decision making, producing "Knowledge Gaps". The resulting standard is not just a new version of ISO 31000. Reaching beyond a simple revision, it gives new meaning to the way that Safety Practitioners manage the risk of tomorrow.
The psychology of risk management by Katherine Heires / September 1, 2017 www.rmmagazine.com deals with how humans respond to high-risk and crisis situations. This research has highlights how the lack of pre-crisis training and preparation may exacerbate risk and cause unnecessary errors during times of stress and uncertainty.
The good news begins with a understanding that each workplace has a “Controlled Condition” or "Scope of Work", with it's own unique chain of command or hierarchy. Thus Managing the Hazardous Hierarchy (MTHH) ensures each that employee complies with healthy and safe work-related practices, which may include disciplinary action.
This phenomena which safety practitioners have begun to understand better than ever before, is that each project has its’ own unique hazardous conditions that exist within the Hierarchy of Hazard Controls. Safety practitioners must consider the scope of work including the basic task or tools required to complete each job safely.
This gives Safety Managers, EHS Professionals and Competent persons the flexibility to document Near Miss and First Aid Events in a way that satisfy the needs and objectives of organizations wishing to learn from pass mistakes.
An article in The University of Sunshine Coast Journal of Theoretical Issue in Ergonomics Science by “Brian Thoroman M.S.” a researcher within the Center for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems that merge applications of systems thinking with a daily analysis of near miss/close incidents.
A review of industry-wide Learning from Near Miss events is an important component of maintaining safe work systems. Within safety science it is widely accepted that a systems approach is the most appropriate for analyzing incidents in sociotechnical systems.
It is very important that, within an organisation, there is a Safety Management System which operates from top to bottom. At senior management meetings, there always needs to be a 'Safety' item on the agenda.
The concept of logging 'near misses' and 'first aid' is crucial to obtaining a comprehensive asessment of risk.
The next stage is to relate this data to varying working environments and also to the working hours of those employed. This can be organised into a computer program covering 24 hour days [where necessary] and seven days per week.
This will highlight any peaks in incidents.
I have used the above to monitor over 100,000 employees.
It highlighted that key times of risk occurred:
after 5 hours work without a break,
working more than 13 hours in a shift,
between the hours of 2am and 5am,
those staff returning to work after leave or illness.
Another area of risk to the company is where supervisory staff are required to monitor information continually [e.g. in control room in atomic reactors]. The average 'span-on-concentration' declines dramatically after 2 hours. The answer is to introduce short shifts with rest breaks.
I hope this is useful.
David
Thanks David, I'm currently using a modified daily Near Miss Report, because it opens up the line of communication between upper management and first line supervisors. Please review and comment on PDF NMR Rev 11-18 thank you.
Dear DENNIS,
actually you explained your procedure to response not to mitigate near misses. to mitigate any incidents we are doing below actions in our company. perhaps there are good for your company @!
1) Identify the Hazards
2)Decide who may be harmed and how
3)Evaluate risks & existing precautions
4)Record the findings
5)Review Assessments
evidently there are driven from DEMING cycle
Thanks Mehdi, the Near Miss Report covers the five actions of mitigating risk in the workplace.
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