Managing Health and Safety Risks: Implications for Tailoring Health and Safety Management System Practices

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• Journal Article:
  Trans Soc Min Metall Explor Inc
• Personal Author:
  Wilmer, D. R. ; Haas, Emily J.
• Description:
  As national and international health and safety management system (HSMS) standards are voluntarily accepted or regulated into practice, organizations are making an effort to modify and integrate strategic elements of a connected management system into their daily risk management practices. In high-risk industries such as mining, that effort takes on added importance. The mining industry has long recognized the importance of a more integrated approach to recognizing and responding to site-specific risks, encouraging the adoption of a risk-based management framework. Recently, the U.S. National Mining Association led the development of an industry-specific HSMS built on the strategic frameworks of ANSI: Z10, OHSAS 18001, The American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care, and ILO-OSH 2001. All of these standards provide strategic guidance and focus on how to incorporate a plan-do-check-act cycle into the identification, management and evaluation of worksite risks. This paper details an exploratory study into whether practices associated with executing a risk-based management framework are visible through the actions of an organization's site-level management of health and safety risks. The results of this study show ways that site-level leaders manage day-to-day risk at their operations that can be characterized according to practices associated with a risk-based management framework. Having tangible operational examples of day-to-day risk management can serve as a starting point for evaluating field-level risk assessment efforts and their alignment to overall company efforts at effective risk mitigation through a HSMS or other processes.
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining industry; Risk management; Injury prevention; Accident prevention
• Source:
  Trans Soc Min Metall Explor Inc. 340(1):100-103.
• Pubmed ID:
  28638235
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5476216
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  9 pdf pages
• Volume:
  340
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049262
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d8abcabcbf57e3baf4ef6b200be3bb634aa164f5d66a038c2351b6c8c7095870c83b1f30b5291fc4807d91d7f5a2e530efb084118208e0053fb93391daff06b4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/46806/cdc_46806_DS1.pdf
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