SafetyPro Resources Blog: SMS

Aligning Goals & Objective to Your SMS Policy Statement

For organizations who are doing a fresh (e.g. brand new) implementation of a safety management system (SMS), one of the more difficult parts is getting started. For some firms..

10 Ways to Supercharge Your Safety Management System - SMS

How's your Safety Management System coping? Employee engagement tends to be a bit of a buzzword, but there is some rationale for getting personnel involved in developing or..

How to Write a Safety Policy Statement for Your SMS

This is one of those elements that is pretty constant across all different types of safety management systems. If the management system framework being utilized does not include a..

Compliance: The Worst Sort of Cooperation

Compliance - How we deal with it The science of management has changed very little in the last six decades. In many organizations, we bumble through dealing with people and..

Zero is the Enemy of “Safe” - Manage Risk & Safety - SafetyPro

In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins opened with the phrase “good is the enemy of great.” As safety leaders, and whether we’d like to believe it or not, it has a lot of..

Leveraging 200 Years of Other People’s Mistakes

If you had the opportunity to flatten your organization’s learning curve by leveraging 200 years of other people’s mistakes while internalizing best practices and providing an..

ANSI/AIHA Z10 vs. OHSAS 18001 vs. VPP: Does it really matter?

Which safety management system is best for us? This is a question that we field on a pretty regular basis from organizations that are considering establishing a safety management..

Square Pegs, Round Holes, & ISNetworld™ Compliance

Many of our firm’s clients are familiar with ISNetworld™, and the unique set of challenges that accompany “voluntary” compliance with legal and other requirements. For those that..

9 Human Factor Pitfalls to Avoid in Successful SMS Implementation

SMS Implementation: Managing the human factor You can go up to pretty much any manager or executive who works in any industry, and be regaled in stories of “good change going..