Technical articles

During the last years, the development in safety management has been very important, thousands of people  have been benefited from it thanks to a change in the way safety management is performed. The last techniques in safety as shared safety, work group, behavioural safety, certification by OHSAS 18000 and ZERO ACCIDENTS projects, have shown how efficient these new techniques are.

Thousands of companies around the world are implementing these techniques successfully and most of these companies are considered excellent in safety.

prosafety® wants to be an essential part of the commitment with excellence. That's why we strongly recommend you to read the following documents. All of them are related to the best practices in safety and will give you an idea of the important benefits of these innovative techniques.

Safety Principles for the companies

The World Steel Association has published a guide about safety principles for the steel industry. However, these principles can be applied to any other sectors. The safety management of excellent companies is based in these principles. That's why we recommend to read it.

"From safety as a priority to safety as a core value"

Shared safety: a new paradigm of occupational safety

Most of the accidents within the company are the consequence of unsafe behaviour. Shared safety has become a new paradigm of occupational safety. With its participative philosophy and work group it requries a high level of commitment from the organisation. In this article you will find a perfect example of how this philosophy has been implemented in one of the biggest steel manufacturer companies of the world: ArcelorMittal.

Read the article: "Seguridad compartida: el nuevo paradigma contra la siniestralidad" (only available in Spanish). Special thanks to the magazine Gestión Práctica de Riesgos Laborales, and Patricia González (Vasque Ergonomy Institute)

Safety Preventive Observations: A tool to implement safety culture in the company.

Safety Preventive Observations are a powerful tool that helps the organisations to implement safe behaviours, identifying safe practices and their communication to the rest of the company. In the following article, that we strongly recommend to read, it is very well explained what a safety preventive observations is and how it works. It also includes real examples, as the implementation of this system in ArcelorMittal.

Read the article: "Observationes Preventivas de Seguridad (OPS): Una herramienta para implantar la cultura de seguridad y salud en la empresa" (article only available in Spanish). Special thanks to the magazine Gestión Práctica de Riesgos Laborales, and Patricia González (Vasque Ergonomy Institute).