Road Safety : If You're Not on the Road to Zero Accidents, You're on the Wrong Road!

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Chapter : Road Safety

If You're Not on the Road to Zero Accidents, You're on the Wrong Road!

The idea of injuries can be eliminated and journey to zero injuries has centered around four primary activities.

1. Identify hazards and assess risk.

The organisation have to proactively identify and eliminate potential hazards. The goal is to go beyond regulatory compliance and look for ways to reduce exposures in routine and non-routine tasks. Hazards occur at the "working Environment." This is the place where the (including equipment and materials) intersects with people and work methods.

2. Develop and implement operational controls with built-in layers of protection.

Layers of protection are established for all operations and activities that could result in risk or impact—everything from Employees safety fall protection to contractor safety.For example, forklift operations, requires numerous controls, including ensuring that fork trucks are inspected before use, training operators, and addressing blind spots. Also, pedestrian travel ways are protected and occupant restraints, overhead protective guards, strobe lights, and backup alarms are all routine. In addition, employees may not approach a forklift within 3 feet without direct communications with the operator, and pedestrians in high forklift travel areas are required to wear safety vests.

3. Monitor and maintain safety systems.

Ongoing monitoring allows to evaluate and improve safety performance and identify areas that require corrective action. It help to tracks key performance indicators for each business unit and operating location. The field observations are used extensively on high-risk tasks and with new employees, known to be at higher risk than seasoned workers.


4. Correct gaps and improve system stability.

A well-developed corrective action process ensures that nonconformances are addressed. The aim is to move the safety system to a higher degree of reliability and sustainability" and minimizing the impact of changes in personnel or operations.

Part of the corrective action process includes applying lessons learned from incidents with high-consequence potential. These are used to predict future areas of vulnerability.