scope:

Nine Elements of a Successful Safety and Health System serves as a framework for safety and health professionals to use for building a safety and health system. This publication will walk the safety professional through nine key steps for implementing and growing a safety and health orientation in today's global environment:

1.Management leadership and commitment

2.Organizational communications and system documentation

3.Assessments, audits and continuous improvement

4.Hazard recognition, evaluation and control

5.Workplace design and engineering

6.Operational safety and health programs

7.Employee involvement

8.Motivation, behavior and attitudes

9.Training and orientation

Prevention is the key to a safe and healthy work environment and this publication is a first step toward meeting that goal. (Formerly titled 14 Elements of a Successful Safety & Health Program.)