How do we help manage hazards?
We like to follow a common high-level process, often called the Deming cycle. We've explained it below to help you understand how we add value
Plan
'Planning' in a Deming Cycle is all about laying the groundwork for the future. With Safety, we're talking about things like:
- Writing your Health and Safety Policy
- Determining the approach to Hazard Identification and Assessment
- Determining the Hazard Management Strategy
- Deciding how to consult employees/stakeholders
We provide consultancy to business owners to help them develop appropriate plans for their situation.
Do
'Doing' in a Deming Cycle is all about taking action - for safety management, this is things like:
- Identifying Hazard Scope
- Assessing Hazard and Risk
- Determining safety measures to be implemented
- Implementing safety measures
- Planned safety measure checks/inspections
- Doing 'toolbox talks'
- Training workers
- Actively engaging employees - Running safety committees, etc.
- Investigating safety reporting data
- Recovering from an event
- Investigating an event
We provide expert guidance and can support these activities as required - this may be on a complete outsource basis for some of these activities
Check
'Checking' in a Deming Cycle is all about:
1. That the general direction of travel is in line with the plan.
2. Confirming that the actions that have been done support the plan.
Within a safety campaign, these are things like:
- Confirming that the process remains fit for purpose
- Confirming that risk assessment outputs remain valid
- Confirming that the arrangements remain fit for purpose
- Performing snap inspections of equipment
- Performing planned periodic inspections of equipment
- Performing snap process Audits
- Performing planned process Audits
- Surveys of workers
- Liaisons with Enforcing / Permissioning Authorities
Act
'Acting' in a Deming Cycle is all about starting the process back at the 'Plan' phase, in a smaller, more confined form - only doing planned or new activities as needed to support the Plan as originally implemented or address the concerns found through Checking.
A new, smaller 'Doing' phase follows, and the cycle continues in a spiral through time.
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