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716 Safety Management System Evaluation
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System Design

Every organization has a safety management system. In fact, you cannot NOT have a safety management system.

Every system is designed perfectly to produce what it produces.

Any system, whether it's Syssie the cow, or a complex safety management system can get sick if it's not designed properly and deployed effectively. Just like Syssie the cow, your safety management system will produce only what it is designed to produce. It can't produce anything else.

System Performance

If your safety management system results in symptoms like poor employee safety performance and high accident rates, it's because the safety management system has been, you guessed it, perfectly designed to produce those results. Basically, The symptoms (unsafe behaviors, hazardous conditions) will not arise if you can eliminate the causes (safety management system weaknesses).

Every system is designed perfectly to produce what it produces.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

1-9. The _____ will not arise if you can eliminate the _____.