1. SAFETY CULTURE / IBC – including existing safety practices and measures
2. TARGETS AND ENERGY / HARM – who or what is at risk, and what sources of harm exist?
4. ADAPTATION (Internal & External) – what is required to keep the safety program effective?
The following pages provide an overview of how Carbon Safety Solutions (CSS) intends to utilize the Carbon Safety Model (interactive image above) in the form of our RPM Tool. There is an overview of the tool in the video below:
The tool can be applied to support organizations in their identification, and management of hazards and risk in the workplace and host a safety program.
The tool has been developed as a workflow to help clients navigate some key concepts, and aspects of a safety program, include existing safety culture, through to the development of a hazard catalogue and risk register, and the capacity to store a safety program online, and a final phase looking at key aspects the organization should consider to manage internal and external influences that can impact the management of safety within their organization.
The RPM Tool works in two stages:
There are four key phases in Stage 1 that are designed to review key aspects for consideration in the construction of a safety program including safety culture, existing safety measures, identification of hazards, and assessment of risk. The key output is a hazard catalogue and risk register which can form the foundation of a safety program.
These phases require client engagement and input to help determine where there current safety management system has strengths, areas of improvements, hazards, controls, and risks. We’ll review these phases below:
Identifying strengths and areas of improvement within the safety culture and also with existing safety measures (interventions, barriers, and controls) that are used to reduce workplace risk.
Identification of workplace hazards that have potential to cause harm, or loss, and the targets (people, equipment, property, environment etc.) that may be exposed to those hazards.
Identifies how hazards are reported (FLHA, employee reports etc.), and where these hazards may exist (geographic locations such as warehouse, office, client site etc.) to help map out trends in relation to hazards and risks.
A Hazard Catalogue and Risk Register (HCRR) is created using client knowledge to identify key activities, tasks, hazards, safety measures, and risk levels. The HCRR can be output to excel with some trend mapping to allow for utilization of the HCRR in safety program documents.
Below is an example of the output from the HCCR into an excel document providing some simple hazard and risk trend analysis.
There are influences that can a positive or negative impact on your organizations safety program, and safety culture. These may be internal influences, or external influences. Identifying them, monitoring them, and working to enhance positive influences, while mitigating negative influences is key to continually improving your organizations management of safety, and continually adapting to these influences.
Whether the organization has a safety program in place and effective, or requires development or revision, the RPM Tool provides an online document repository for storage of key safety documents.
The repository uses a simple navigable interface to help direct users to key areas of the program. The interface is based on the Carbon Safety Model and hosts file folder structure to create a single point of access for key users to view, or update policies, processes, procedures, and other supporting safety documents.
The intent is to have a completed safety program stored within the RPM Tool that can be accessed by navigating the online RPM tool interface, with two types of user:
Your safety program components can be held in our Safety Files application which is an online interface allowing you to upload and store documents within your safety program.
The RPM Tool Safety Files Application allows a simple drag and drop solution for uploading your safety program documents. This online central repository allows editor access to amend documents, or read only access to those who simply need to read, or download documents helping to keep documents up to date, and accessible.
Documents may be uploaded into the RPM Tool as a means to create a simple single source location for users to review key documents. The Carbon Safety Model is used as an interface and each component of the model contains a folder structure where documents and folders can be used to organize your safety program in line with the Carbon Safety Model.
This online repository of safety program files may be viewed as the single most current and up to date version of safety program documents for your organization.
Users may navigate the safety files repository by accessing the safety files link which takes users to a navigable portal in the form of the Carbon Safety Model. Simply click on the area of the model you’d like to access to view related documents. Within each area is the folder structure where documents and folders are set up by the organization to hold key parts of the safety program.
Here users can access documents to read or download with read only permission, or users with editor permissions are able to upload, and download documents, as well as configure folders as needed.
If you have questions, or would like a demonstration of the RPM Tool please contact info@carbonsafety.ca or call 250 734 1373.