ABSTRACT
Safety is the control of all forms of accidental loss by identifying, analyzing, and reducing risks. The main areas of loss which are prevented or reduced by a safety management system are as follows: A work injury is any injury suffered by a person, and which arises out of, and during the course of, his or her normal employment. Property damage accidents, therefore, should receive the same attention as injuryproducing accidents to identify and rectify the failure in the system. Some of the international safety management system Guidelines discussed in this publication do not include property damage in their recommendations, as they state it does not form part of the safety, health, and welfare protection of employees. A safety management system should consider that property damage accidents are accidents which should have been prevented and which, under slightly different circumstances, could have caused injury, fatality, or illness.
