Safety management systems provide guidelines for safe behavior and influence around 80% of daily safety behaviors. They cover topics like safety leadership and accountability, risk assessment and management, training, operations, and information documentation. BSMS Inc uses a schematic of these topics as a base for assessing safety management systems through audits, with assessments converted into risk-weighted scores using their Safety Culture Profiling method.

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Safety Management Systems
Safety Management Systems are deliberately designed to provide guidelines on how to behave safely in
particular circumstances. How well each element is developed, managed and reinforced affects
approximately 80 percent of people's daily safety behavior. It makes good commercial sense,
therefore, to optimize your company's Safety Management System.
Simple or complex, the structure of most safety management systems, cover the topics presented in the
diagram. These include
1. Safety leadership, commitment and accountability at the 'Strategic level' (i.e Policy);
2. Risk Assessment, Risk Management & Compliance at the 'Operational Level' (i.e. Organizing for
Safety);
3. Facility's Design & Construction, personnel training & competency at the 'tactical Level' (i.e. Planning);
4. Operations, third­party nationals & contractor involvement at the 'Behavioral Level' (i.e. Measuring
Performance);
5. Information documentation, maintenance, incident reporting & analyses, operations integrity assessment
& improvement, auditing, etc. (i.e. Reviewing Performance).
BSMS Inc uses the schematic as the base for assessing the effectiveness of Safety Management Systems
using audits based on British Health & Safety Executive documents HS(G) 65 and HS(G) 48. Assessments
are converted into 'risk­weighted' scores, using our 'Safety Culture Profiling ' method.®