Our Safety Management System (SMS)

“The Management-Based Safety (MBS) process”
Effective safety management boils down to three things:
management clearly communicating to employees what
is expected, employees doing what is expected, and
management assuring employees do what is expected.
It is really no different than managing any other business
function.  However, our management tools and training
methods help organizations achieve success simply,
quickly, and consistently.  The National Safety
Consultants Management Based Safety (MBS) Process is a simple and proven approach. It
helps organizations meet OSHA-VPP, DOE 10 CFR 851, and ANSI Z 10 criteria and/or
attain certification by ISO.

National Safety Consultants can train your management and employees on the
Management Based Safety Process.  We also offer this process to clients via a shared
implementation option where we train your staff to successfully implement this culture-
changing process.


Dramatically improve your safety culture!

Management-Based Safety is a turn-key process designed to:

  • Assess your organizations current safety climate.
  • Position your senior managers to demonstrate their personal commitment and
    involvement needed to improve the safety culture.
  • Educate all managers and supervisors on how they can consistently attain safety
    performance excellence.  
  • Engage employees everyday in methods to assure they take control of their personal
    safety destiny.
  • Build the necessary foundation needed to begin your safety culture change.
  • Attain and sustain safety performance excellence.
  • Exceed ANSI Z-10, OSHA VPP, DOE,  and ISO Safety Management System
    Requirements.     

IF these "safety hurdles" are holding you back?

  • Senior managers are not yet demanding safety performance excellence.
  • Senior managers are not personally committed and involved in leading the safety
    improvement process.
  • Managers and supervisors don’t accept responsibility for safety performance outcomes.
  • Managers and supervisors are not held substantially accountable for results.
  • Constant hazard recognition and remediation is not occurring.
  • Rules are not being rigidly or consistently enforced by supervision.
  • Employees challenge rule compliance.
  • Consequences for rule deviations are inconsistently applied.
  • Employee risk-taking is condoned and encouraged.
  • Employees are not personally engaged in reducing risks.
  • Safety goals, objectives, and accountability measures are ineffective or non-existent.
  • Root causes of hazards and incidents are rarely identified and properly addressed.
  • Organizational safety performance is cyclic.
  • Work output, quality, and financial issues strongly overshadow safety performance.
  • Safety professionals own and manage the safety process.
  • Safety professionals are held responsible for safety results.

Then Management-Based Safety is your solution.
  • Senior management driven.
  • Line management owned.
  • Employees involved.
  • Responsibilities established.
  • Accountability increased.
  • Compliance surpassed.
  • Costs reduced.
  • Productivity augmented.
  • Destiny controlled.
  • OSHA VPP, ANSI, DOE, ISO attained.
  • Safety culture transformed.
  • Excellence accomplished!  

Learn the critical skills and tools necessary to transform your safety culture. Lead
your organization to new heights and attain safety performance excellence
consistently.


Implementation and Pricing Options
According to the National Safety Council in 2009, the cost of a single lost workday case
was $42,000.  A worker death cost employers on average 1.2 million dollars.  The MBS
Process will pay for itself quickly in any organization.

National Safety Consultants Inc. offers two implementation and pricing options making
Management-Based Safety affordable for any organization.

Option 1- is National Safety Consultants administered:

  • Safety Climate Surveys administered off-site and analyzed by National Safety
    Consultants.    
  • On-site Current State Safety Culture Assessment interviews.
  • One-day Senior Management alignment training conducted by National Safety
    Consultants.
  • Two-day Manager/Supervisor/Key Leader training conducted by National Safety
    Consultants.
  • Two-hour process orientation conducted by your first-line supervisors.
  • Follow-up Safety Climate Surveys administered and analyzed by National Safety
    Consultants.

Option 2- is a shared administration approach and is designed for trained EHS
professionals and/or site facilitators.  Implementation process includes:

  • Safety Climate Surveys administered off-site and analyzed by National Safety
    Consultants.
  • One-day Senior Management alignment training conducted by National Safety
    Consultants.
  • Two-day on-site training for the site facilitators.   
  • Two-day Manager/Supervisor/Key Leader training conducted by your designated site
    facilitator(s) using a modular Power Point voice-over package.
  • One hour employee orientation conducted by your site facilitator(s).
  • Follow-up Safety Climate Surveys administered off-site and analyzed by National
    Safety Consultants.
  • Electronic training package for the site facilitator(s).
  • Electronic process implementation and monitoring tools.
  • Facilitators Delivery and Implementation Guide.
  • Process Resource Manual.

Note: This option requires a site licensing fee.  A Two-day Train the Trainer session for
designated site facilitators is required. Please contact us for a price quotation.




    Feel free to request a Powerpoint Brochure detailing the MBS process.

                                                    Attend an MBS Workshop to learn more.