ADVANCED SAFETY MANAGEMENT FOCUSING ON Z10 AND SERIOUS INJURY PREVENTION

The principal purpose of this book is to provide guidance to managements, safety
professionals, educators, and students concerning two major, interrelated developments impacting on the occupational safety and health discipline. They are the:
• Issuance, for the first time in the United States, of a national consensus standard for occupational safety and health management systems
• Emerging awareness that traditional systems to manage safety do not adequately address serious injury prevention
On July 25, 2005, the American National Standards Institute approved a new
standard, the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Standard, designated ANSI/AIHA Z10-2005. This standard is a state-of-the-art, best practices
guide. Over time, Z10 will revolutionize the practice of safety.
Chapter 1, an overview of Z10, comments on all the provisions in the standard.
Chapter 3 on Serious Injury Prevention gives substance to the position that adopting
a different mind-set is necessary to reduce serious injury potential. Other chapters
give implementation guidance with respect to the standard’s principal provisions
and to serious injury prevention.
Recognition of the significance of Z10 has been demonstrated. Its provisions
are frequently cited as representing highly effective safety and health management
practices. The sales record for Z10 is impressive. Safety professionals are quietly
making gap analyses, comparing existing safety and health management systems
to the provisions of Z10.