S.A.F.E Clusters and Categories

Five umbrella clusters and 10 categories are shown below:

Safety Behaviour

• Building Commitment to Safety
  Building commitment to OHS looks at the extent to which you understand the importance of OHS excellence and demonstrate your commitment to it openly in your words and actions to provide an example to others. This category asks the question "How much time do you spend in thinking and talking about OHS and do you consult with and act as an OHS role model for others around you?"

• Building skills and competence
  Building skills and competencies looks at how training needs are assessed, identified and implemented. This category asks the question "How well designed and orchestrated is the OHS training plan to give individuals the preventive knowledge to avoid incidents and to appreciate the risks of everything that they do (and to take appropriate action?)"

Safety Design

• Safe systems design
  Safe systems design looks at the extent to which clear, concise and comprehensive standards, systems and procedures are in place and used to ensure that the potential for incidents and near misses is minimised. This category asks the question "How effectively do your overall written OHS system, plans and goals provide support during design to ensure that the possibility for OHS problems is as near to zero as practicable?"

• Risk management strategy
  Risk management strategy looks at the extent to which you appreciate the hazards and risks that may exist in your workplace on a day to day basis and seek to minimise their impact. This category asks the question "How well do you understand the likelihood of hazards and risks causing OHS problems and consider the possible consequences of these risks in order to do something about it?

Safety Systems

• Process management
  Process management looks at the extent to which OHS systems and work processes are operating efficiently, effectively and are working well at a practical level. This category asks the question "How well do the basic OHS processes work and what efforts are made to keep improving and adjusting them?"

• Deficiency rectification
  Monitoring standards looks at the extent to which the team reviews OHS standards, hazard controls and practices for workplace environmental and health surveillance. This category asks the question "How effective are existing OHS monitoring controls?"

Safety Quality

• Control of documentation
  Control of Documentation looks at the extent to which OHS documents and data and other resources are easily available to ensure that employee OHS needs and expectations can be met in a timely and efficient way. This category asks the question "How well planned, reliable, controlled and accessible are organisational OHS information and documentation in order to use them to ensure high quality of OHS at all levels"?

• Continuous improvement
  Continuous improvement looks at the extent to which the team seeks to stretch towards even higher standards of OHS performance and to continuously improve over time. It includes assessment, audit and management reviews. This category asks the question "How effectively do OHS strategy, performance and goals succeed?"

Asset Safety

• Purchasing and material control
  Purchasing & material control looks at the extent to which OHS risks are not introduced to the workplace through buying practices. This category asks the question "How effective are our systems and processes to ensure that OHS standards are enforced for all purchased goods and services?"

• Monitoring standards
  Monitoring standards looks at the extent to which the team reviews OHS standards, hazard controls and practices for workplace environmental and health surveillance. This category asks the question "How effective are existing OHS monitoring controls?"

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