The LINK Safety Management Program
The RISKmap LINK Safety Management Program is a risk-based safety
management program, designed to provide a practical and effective framework
to facilitate a systematic management approach to safety in the workplace. It
provides the processes required which seek to identify key risk areas and deal
with these as well as generate immediate visible improvement in the workplace.
As a result, the program produces actions which can be effectively audited
and graded. This provides a means of sustaining and improving the quality of
outcomes, and also leads to a positive culture of safety being generated.
The LINK Program consists of 7 Chapters and is sub-divided into some 51 elements:
- Organisational Management
- Risk Management
- Fire & Emergency Protection
- Safe Working Practices
- Premises, Machinery & Equipment
- Occupational Health
- Environmental Management
Each of the 51 elements has a number of sub-elements that can be
separately ‘audited’ as appropriate to the organisation and its operation, adding
up to a total rating for the system. Overall rating is simply a percentage figure of
actual performance against the total “possible”. This index-rating approach has
the advantage of clearly indicating potential problem areas, as well as providing
an objective base against which to compare the next audit rating, indicating
whether the management of safety has improved or not.
A LINK “Toolbox” has been developed to complement the LINK Program, and assist with implementation. The package includes:
- Registers
- Checklists
- Hazard register
- Information sheets
- Appointment forms
- Accident Investigation forms
- Accident Reporting forms
- Flow-charts
- Etc.