This is a term used to refer to a comprehensive business management system designed to manage safety elements in the workplace.

There are 3 essentials for adopting a safety management for a business – these are:

Ethical
Legal
Financial
To address these 3 elements, an effective Safety Management System should:

Describe how the organisation is set up to manage risks

Discover workplace risk and apply suitable controls

Execute effective communications across all levels of the organisation

Implement a process to identify and correct non-conformities

Apply a continual improvement process

A Safety Management System can be created for any business. No matter how big or small the business is.