Safety seems so easy – just make sure people don’t get hurt. In practice it is a lot harder to achieve a safe organisation that is capable of sustained safe performance in the face of significant hazards. This paper will examine the role of systematic management systems in helping to ensure that organisations become safe and stay that way. The possession of a management system, no matter ho…
This paper will examine briefly the history of systematic safety management systems and safety cases, drawing on my personal experience of the petrochemical industry and Shell in particular. While I attempt a balanced view, my experience has been constrained to the Oil and Gas industry and, more recently, the commercial aviation environment. It will take the view that, while safety manageme…