Safety

Introduction

Safety is traditionally seen as accident prevention, i.e. avoiding unwanted events from occurring. Safety can also be seen as a basic value in the workplace. If one adopts a proactive way of thinking, then safety can be viewed as resilience engineering, and accordingly in case of unpredictable challenges the operations should be returned back to normal with only minimum damages incurred. In the continuously changing working life and working environment, safety needs to be improved all the time. Reaching the desired safety level requires continuous work, at both the management and operational levels.

Defining safety

The word 'Safety'…