Risk Management, Safety Management and Loss Control

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If you are looking for consulting and training when implementing your risk management / safety management system , look at:

SSVV

At present I am doing some free-lance work in relation to the accredited safety certification system for contractors that exists in The Netherlands (and Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland). The Dutch system is called VCA and it is used by companies to help select their contractors. I was involved in the development of it between 1989 and 1994. It started in the chemical/oil industry as an effort to improve the safety performance of their contractors but has meanwhile spread to other industries. Now there are close to 10.000 certificates issued by about 25 certification bodies under the supervision of the Dutch Council for Accreditation RvA. My work is to assist the Committee of Experts in upgrading the system and to secure its quality level. More information about this VCA system can be found on the website of SSVV which is the (industrial) foundation that has been set up for this - just click on the website below.

THE principle of RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

"The greater the departure of any planned change from the accepted ways of the past, the greater the potential resistance by the people involved.