If you are an ISO-9000 registered company, each of your employees can recite your quality policy. If you ask them to state the safety policy, or even to define what safety means, you will likely hear things like, “no one gets hurt,” “everyone goes home every day in the same way they came in,” or “I don’t know.” ProAct Safety defines safety as three things: identifying the hazards, controlling the hazards, and doing these things all of the time. These three things form the safety triad that lays a powerful foundation for a simplified yet impactful safety management system. The root cause of every workplace incident is found in the failure modes of these elements. When every employee has the same definition of safety and has the same goal, you will eliminate or greatly reduce the occurrence of the root causes of all safety incidents.

Key Takeaways: 

• Learn the three elements of the safety triad, as well as the potential failure modes of each of the triad elements. 
• Discover how to promote the safety triad as a shared definition of safety. 
• Understand how to utilize the safety triad at all levels of your organization.