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Risk Management, Safety Management and Loss Control

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5.1. Structure of Management System Elements

After defining the GOOD MANAGEMENT PRACTICES that should be in your Safety Management System (see also "SYSTEM CONTENT"), these activities need to be put in in a structure to allow maximum results with minimum efforts. 

To be effective, the activity areas  (or "elements") that make up in the management system  must be properly carried out. To assist this, each of these areas must structured in such a way that the structure helps to drive implementation as well as improvement of activities vital to the control of risk. This (generic) structure is provided below and further detail of each of the items can be obtained by following the identified hyperlinks. The structure starts with a need assessment, management statement and coordination, then goes to the establishment of the standing plan for the activity/attention area concerned and ends with assessment of activities, evaluation of results and the periodic review and improvement.

The structure:

1. need assessment and management statement

2. co-ordination of element activities

3. standing plan

   1. review of legislation etc. for minimum requirements

   2. specific activities

   3. employee participation in development

   4. employee training

   5. employee participation in implementation/improvement

   6. communication needs

   7. standing plan assessment

4. review and improvement  

The improvement cycle is visualized below as the "Improvement Wheel" where the standing plan is the axle driven by the engine build around it. The engine  is fuelled by management leadership.  (Also see platform model.)

The generic structure can be seen as an extension of the Deming circle PDCA (Plan - Do - Check - Act) as well as an application of the model that I use to demonstrate the main ingredients for success. The structure also contains elements from the overall process that I described for management system building and implementation.

THE principle of MANAGEMENT RESULTS

 "A manager tends to secure most effective results - through and with others - by performing the management work of planning, organizing, leading and controlling."