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Carbon Safety Model

Carbon Safety Model

Phase 4 – Adaptation (Internal and External)

Organizations are fluid and dynamic, as are the environments they operate in.

As a result, they are required to continually monitor their performance, and environment to adapt to relevant change.  This may include positive, or negative, and internal or external influences on safety.

Understanding, and encouraging, or discouraging these influences can help the organization forecast where issues may occur, and manage risk proactively, and may also help to encourage continual improvement for influences in place having a positive impact on the organization.

Inputs: The organization should consider what influences exist internal to the organization that may have a positive or negative influence on the management of safety within the organization.  This may include people, locations, organizations, physical or operational aspects of the organization amongst other influences.  The organization should also consider how or where evidence of these influences may be observed, or captured.

Outputs: The organization may wish to create tables for monitoring and measuring to determine how effectively expectations are being met.  These elements of monitoring and measuring may influence the organizations objectives, targets, and key performance indicators and require consideration when developing the objectives, targets, and key performance indicators.

Additionally, it may be beneficial to create a table outlining where the organization has identified influences that may require adaptation, or monitoring.  An example of an influences table is outlined below:

 PositiveNegative
Internal InfluencesWorker performance

Management performance

Monitoring performance

Responding to performance

Good training and awareness

Competent workers

Adequate resources

Inspection and site visits

Job observations

Absence of positive influences

Wrong people on the bus

Lack of buy-in to culture

Safety Program is too complex

Program doesn’t reflect actual practices

Program isn’t used

Too many new and young workers

Changes to expectations

Limited resources to allow the use of the program creating pressure/anxiety

External InfluencesClient feedback and recognition

Compliance with regulatory requirements

3rd party inspections and reviews

Social perceptions

Measure against a standard (COR, ISO)

Absence of positive influences

Too much work scheduled

Financial restrictions/challenges

Pressure to complete work quicker

Changes in expectations from external stakeholders (regulators, the client, the public)