ABSTRACT
Accidents, mishaps, and hazardous exposures can result in injuries, illnesses, property damage, and work interruptions. Companies, businesses, and institutions must make hazard control a “priority” organizational function. Proactive hazard control can improve operational eciency, organizational eectiveness, and the bottom line. e hazard control profession should focus on using management, leadership, and improvement principles to prevent accidents, injuries, and other losses. Senior leaders must ensure that organizational members promptly report accidents, hazards, close call incidents, and unsafe behaviors. Organizations can unknowingly promote activities that do little to improve safety-related behaviors or encourage continuous learning processes. Passive hazard control eorts can communicate a general awareness about the importance
of working safely. However, many well-intended initiatives do not achieve measurable results when the organization fails to make hazard control a priority function.
