"You can only manage what you can measure
…and what gets measured gets done"

The S.A.F.E system is a comprehensive, easy to follow, multi-part assessment process that involves all employees in an enterprise (of any type or size) in helping to bring about long term occupational health and safety improvement. The system has an extensive suite of paper based support materials, which can be purchased in hard copy format. However, widespread access is also provided via this web site. This site contains all of the extensive support documentation and more (running to well over 1,000 pages) as well as providing a world class on-line OH&S survey process.

The S.A.F.E. system provides a sophisticated but easy to use overall audit framework to help organisations of all kinds to assess their current occupational health and safety performance and use the information gathered to make targeted plans for improvement. For this reason, the S.A.F.E system applies just as much those organisations that are already using an OHS management system (but want to base it on better on-going data gathering techniques) and those (at the other end of the spectrum) that have no OHS systems in place at all.

The S.A.F.E system is unique in that it suggests that OHS assessment is conducted from two perspectives-'top down' and 'bottom up'.

In the 'top-down' system, trained teams are asked to audit OH&S performance under five clusters and ten individual categories in order to discover where the most improvement attention in the future needs to be paid.

These five umbrella clusters and 10 categories are shown below (you can click on any of these 5 cluster headings to find out more):

In the 'bottom up' system, these same five clusters and ten categories are used to survey as many individuals at the 'sharp-end' of the enterprise as possible, these may be in small teams, whole departments, whole locations or the entire enterprise at once. Participating individuals complete an eighty question on-line survey to offer their opinions on specific subject areas and are also given the opportunity to offer free form comments.

3 levels of S.A.F.E-Bronze, Silver and Gold

Every one of the ten categories in the S.A.F.E system is organised in the same way, with what are described as bronze, silver and gold elements. This reflects the fact that OH&S performance excellence is built progressively over time, with the basic building blocks needing to be in place before the more sophisticated policies and practices can be introduced and sustained.

Associated Products and Services

A collection of quality oriented support products is offered to help individuals at all levels. These are the best products and services for participating successfully in the OH&S management process. This includes the best resources available from amazon.com. Just click on the amazon site link to the left.

Diagnosis based safety book

A 250+ page book, written by OH& S experts Jon Warner and Paul Carey provides an excellent summary of how to effectively assess current safety performance, and to develop a focused strategy for future improvement based on the data gathered.

Free downloadable booklet