1. A Strategy for an Effective Accident Prevention Program
The Road to Zero:
A Strategy for an Effective Accident Prevention Program

2. Guiding Principles Prevention starts at the top
Commitment at all levels
Individual empowerment
* A significant portion of this presentation is based on the Bethlehem Steel
safety manual.
Accident prevention must start at the top of the organization, requires teamwork and participation of all employees.
Accident prevention requires the commitment and best efforts of all levels; from the top official to the front-line employee.
Every individual must be empowered to act in the best interest of safety.

3. Requirements for an Organized Accident Prevention Process
Establish goals and policies
Provide means to achieve goals
Establish and communicate responsibilities
Develop knowledge and skill requirements
Create favorable safety motivation
Provide accountability
Establish written goals and policies
-Goal: Achieve zero injuries
-Policy: Safety must be an integral part of all
activities and must not be compromised.
Provide necessary means to achieve goals
-Resources -Time Empowerment
Establish and communicate written responsibilities for each level
-All safety responsibilities and use of accident
prevention tools must be covered
-Many are applicable on multiple levels
Develop required knowledge and skills
-Train every level in how to carry out their safety
responsibilities and use of accident prevention tools
Develop favorable safety motivation
-Develop at all levels through training, reasoning,
incentives and most important personal example
Provide accountability

4. Accident Prevention Tools
Risk analysis
Rules and procedures
Training
Observations
Inspections
Accident investigation
Risk analysis
Safety rules and procedures, including compliance with the law
Safety training
Safety observations
Safety inspections
Accident Investigation

5. Risk Analysis Identify hazards and potential accidents
Develop preventive measures
Start with high risks
Develop a Risk Analysis
Use Risk Analysis as training guide
Identify hazards and potential accidents
Develop preventive measures for each identified hazard or potential accidents
-Start with high risk facilities, processes and jobs
-Accident frequency data
-Potential severity
Methods for developing a Risk Analysis
-Analyze prior accidents
-On-site observation
-Group discussion
Use Risk Analysis as training guides
-Initial and pre-job safety training
-Planned safety contacts
-Planned safety observations

6. Safety Training Know hazards and safety procedures
New employee orientation
Pre-job safety instructions
Planned safety contacts
Everyone must know the hazards and safety procedures of their job
-Laws are created to address safety and health hazards.
-Compliance with the law is integrally tied to safety and
health progress in an organization.
New employee orientation
-Company policy on accident prevention
-Employee’s responsibilities for working safely
-General hazards General safety rules
Pre-job safety instructions
-Job specific hazards -Critical safety rules/ procedures
-Potential accidents -Likely unsafe practices
-Required protective equipment
Planned safety contacts
-Continuing education
-Increase awareness
-Correct unsafe practices

7. Planned Safety Observations
Correct unsafe practices
Conduct systematic and regular observations
Jobs and employees that require increased observations
Benefits of planned observations
Observed unsafe practices must be corrected on the spot
Systematic and regular observations assure that unsafe practices will be spotted.
-All levels of supervisors should make observations
Jobs and employees requiring increased safety observations
-Inexperienced employee -Accident repeater
Jobs requiring increased safety observations
-Jobs with a history of repeated accidents
-Jobs with greatest potential for serious injury
Benefits of planned safety observations
-Check effectiveness of training
- Permit on-the-spot correction
-Provide opportunities to compliment

8. Planned Safety Inspections
Correct unsafe condition on the spot
Conduct systematic and regular inspections
Develop safety inspection analyses
Use safety inspection checklists
Observed unsafe conditions must be corrected on the spot
Systematic and regular inspections assure that unsafe conditions will be spotted
-All levels make inspections on varying frequency
Develop safety inspection analyses
-Define what items and parts to inspect
-Define what conditions to look for
-Define how often to inspection for each level
Advantages of using safety inspections checklist
-Less likely items will be overlooked
-Provides a basis for reporting inspection findings
-Saves writing detailed inspection reports
-Means to monitor and follow up corrective actions
-Tool to educate employees

9. Accident Investigation, Reporting, and Follow-Up
Establish actions to prevent recurrence
Report all accidents, including near misses
Analyze causes and recommend actions
Control planned corrective actions
Conduct accident data analysis
Investigation reports determine what happened, how it happened, why it happened, and what must be done to prevent it from happening again.
Primary purpose is to establish actions to prevent recurrence.
Investigation report for all accidents including near misses
Analyze all causes and make recommendations to prevent each cause
Control of planned corrective actions
Conduct accident data analysis

10. Motivating Employees to Work Safely
Lead by example
Develop a foundation for cooperation
Increase incentives and decrease disincentives
Lead by setting the right example.
- Actions speak louder than words and demonstrate
that you care
Develop a foundation for cooperation.
-Empower all employees
-Delegate ownership to every level
Increase incentives and decrease disincentives for working safely.
-Handle safety problem employees with skill
-Establish written policies
-Must be consistent, firm and fair
-Educate employees so they know what to expect

11. Evaluating Safety Performance
Data analysis and statistics
Accident prevention tools
Internal audits
Use accident data analysis and statistics to measure effectiveness
Evaluate accident-prevention tool use as part of accident investigations
Evaluate accident prevention effectiveness by internal audits

12. Managing an Effective Accident Prevention Process
Get involved and lead by example
Promote accident prevention tools and objectives
Clearly communicate responsibilities
Have a written plan
Make time to use accident prevention tools effectively
Get involved and set positive example
Make sure everyone understands all Accident Prevention tools, and their objectives
Clearly communicate all individual responsibilities
Make a written annual plan for use of each accident prevention tool, target problem areas and evaluate their application
Arrange time for use accident prevention tools effectively