80-20 Rules of Safety Management


Effective Safety management is a “system approach” and is certainly not a “piecemeal activity”.   Like any other business function, it also requires careful planning, efficient organisation, adequate resource allocation and sound monitoring and evaluation process. Conventional approach and generic activities render safety function missing the objective of the organisation year after year. In every management it is said that efforts and resources applied to preventing the occurrence that lead to defects in quality, deteriorated environment or injury in due course of business is economical and effective. This is true to safety management too.

Unfortunately, most business focuses more for situations developed after business upsets. In the name of improving safety performance, an organisation runs many programs that address the problems surfaced after an accident (a potential business upset). The accident may be a situation related to release/spill of chemicals, fire/explosion, and collapse of building/structure, failure of heavy machinery/cranes etc or like. We witness a lot of discussion and mention of fire fighting/rescue training, use of personal protective safety items, emergency planning etc in media and social networking sites and almost no or very less concern over aspects helpful in curbing the situation . A huge investment is done on development of infrastructure to take care of the upset situations once they get triggered. Some of the examples are detection and alarm system, protection system, emergency shutdown system etc. Here it is never meant that these are not important and one should not make arrangement for containing the effects of the accident. One must make a robust system of early detection and response to any business upset in order to have control on losses.

A high performing safety management should be based on the philosophy of “how should an accident be avoided from being happened” and this is called philosophy of prevention. It is essential that strategy is directed to avoid experiencing any situation that results into some kind of accident which finally disrupts normal business course and is a cause of heavy loss of lives and/or property/environment.  Therefore it is suggested to an 80-20 safety management i.e. 80 % efforts on Prevention and 20 % efforts on Containment. This is depicted in the below diagram as indicative to enhance our understanding and to guide our action for high safety performance.


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