ISO 45001 and the revised ANSI/ASSP Z10 SMS Standard will help safety professionals make the case to executive leadership that integrating safety and health into existing business management systems ...

Healthcare organizations can improve and sustain safety by borrowing safety management system principles from the defense nuclear industry, according to a perspective piece in the Joint Commission ...

The chief job responsibilities of most safety and health practitioners—regardless of career maturity—is most likely compliance, building management systems, training and implementing programs that ...

The U.S. NTSB first recommended that Safety Management Systems (SMS) be implemented by Part 121 airlines—something the FAA now requires—in 2007, then called for the same requirement for public ...

Airline safety comparisons often focus on outcomes, while regulators and operators assess safety performance through layered oversight, system maturity, and sustained risk management . Measuring ...

The role of construction safety professionals has significantly expanded over the past decade. The industry employs thousands of safety professionals, most of whom work for contractors (general or ...

The goal: An 80% reduction in accidents by 2016 The use of helicopters has grown tremendously in the past 20 years. In particular, there has been substantial growth in the law enforcement and ...

Think of an SMS program as active safety management. Credit: designer491/Alamy Stock Photo In November 2015, a chartered Hawker 700 stalled and crashed while on a non-precision approach to Akron, Ohio ...

All agencies that receive Urbanized Area Formula Grants from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) have certified that their safety plans were in place by June 20, 2021, the deadline for FTA’s 2018 ...