Safety is becoming a more important topic of discussion for most businesses, and implementing a detailed safety programme has now been accepted as an organisational priority, something necessary for long-term success.
However many organisations fail in this, simply because they are approaching it from the wrong direction. They view safety as a separate task, one that costs money and focusses on measuring unwanted outcomes. Senior and line management is largely unengaged in this traditional, reactive approach and therefore a separate team is usually engaged for the development and implementation of Operational Health and Safety procedures.