Name and discuss in detail the eight components of safety management.

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What will be an ideal response?

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1. Commitment of Senior Leadership to Safety Management: An organization’s leadership must fully and consistently support safety management in order for it to be successful. Part of the support needs to be financial.
2. Effective and Consistent Reporting of Safety Issues: In order to be effective, the management of safety requires information and data in the form of reports completed and submitted by employees of an organization. The data gathered from the submitted reports can then be used to conduct trend analysis in order to identify the most common types of issues and to rank-order events and hazards according to the risk(s) they pose.
3. Continual Monitoring: Safety management necessitates monitoring the organization to determine effectiveness, areas of concern, successes/failures.
4. Investigation of Accidents and Other Events: Events should be thoroughly investigated to determine all causal factors and to develop effective, specific correction actions. All accidents, incidents, near-misses (as much as possible) should be investigated using a standardized investigation process throughout the organization. Prevention of future events is the goal of investigation.
5. Sharing Safety Lessons Learned and Best Practices: Sharing safety-related information within the organization and with other entities is potentially beneficial to the industry as a whole. For example, an airline sharing safety information with other airlines and organizations that may benefit is a best practice that may produce benefit to all.
6. Safety Training for Operational Personnel: Providing specific, comprehensive safety training will help to ensure that employees know the expectations and policies related to safety that they are expected to follow.
7. Effective Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Everything related to safety management and programs needs to be put in writing in the form of organizational SOPs. This information needs to be written clearly, revised as necessary and maintained in such a manner that it is continuously assessable by all employees. When revisions are made to safety procedures, manuals and other SOPs need to be updated as soon as possible.
8. Continuous Improvement of the Overall Level of Safety: In order to ensure the greatest potential for effectiveness and long-term success, the management of safety must be a continual, ongoing activity. Modifications and changes within the organization must be made as problems are identified