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What is a Safety Improvement Plan?
A Safety Improvement Plan is a simple and important document/form used by companies - typically in the industries (construction, oil and gas, mining etc.) to create and outline a plan and actionable steps for improving some aspect of safety performance.
Think of it as a game plan that keeps workers safe, and the operations run smoothly. It contains the clear goals, practical steps to fix problems and issues, and risk identification in any type of activity with the ultimate goal of getting everyone home in one piece.
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How to tell if you need a Safety Improvement Plan?
Safety is of critical importance in site related projects, where dangers and hazards are a constant threat to employee health and safety - as well as project progress and company reputation.
Creating a reliable safety improvement process which features a regular re-visiting and refining Safety Improvement Plans ensures that your safety record continues to improve. A proper Safety Improvement Plan doesn't just protect employees from hazards, but it also keeps projects on track, improve efficiency, and develop a strong reputation between clients and workers.
Is your workplace safety falling apart? If incidents happen more often than your team meetings, then it's time to develop a Safety Improvement Plan. Here are key indicators where your company would need one:
- If accidents and incidents happen too frequently, and you can't count them using your fingers anymore
- If your insurance costs are rising – the higher the premiums you're paying, mean higher risks.
- If your site is always being visited by compliance officers and investigators. There's something wrong with your safety protocols – probably a violation you keep repeating.
How to structure a Safety Improvement Plan Template
There's no universal template for a Safety Improvement Plan, but you have to structure it so that it does that it's supposed to do, identify, address, and prevent hazards. Usually the structure is like this:
- Introduction, purpose, objectives, scope, and goals
- Safety Performance Assessment: this is a review of all the previous incidents and near misses that have happened, and the current safety metrics in place
- Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, and Control Measures: which includes all the hazards they can identify, their risk levels, and control measures to mitigate them
- Action Plan: where the company should go for improvement, if the preventive measures need to be updated, new policies, upgrading equipment, or providing training programs
Companies and businesses follow specific regulations, depending on where they're located. Here are some of the globally recognised standards:
- On a global scale, the ISO 45001 might be followed
- In the USA, they follow the OSHA Standards for workplace safety
- In the UK, they follow the HSE for workplace safety laws
- In Australia, they have the Safe Work Australia
Who benefits the most from proper safety plans?
The persons who benefit the most are the employees, who have to work in the field, be exposed to different risk and hazards, and those who have to wear PPEs because wearing one is a sign that what you're doing is dangerous. Having a Safety Improvement Plan in place just generally reduces the injuries and fatalities, less stress, and more focus on the tasks at hand. No employee or worker wants their name in an incident report.
With fewer incidents and accidents, there are fewer lawsuits and disputes, lower insurance costs, and higher productivity. The company or the business greatly benefits from having to protect their workers, aside from having the moral responsibility of making sure workers are safe, fewer violations mean a better reputation.
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