Advanced Safety Management, 3rd Edition

INTRODUCTION

This book comments on the provisions of ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019, the American standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, and ANSI/ASSP/ISO 45001-2018—the international standard titled Occupational health and safety management systems—Requirements with guidance for use. It also includes several chapters that relate to the standards and also to serious injury, illness, and fatality prevention. An abstract is provided in this Introduction for each chapter.

In accord with a suggestion made by a professor who uses my books in his classes, an attempt was made to have each chapter be a stand-alone essay. Partial success with respect to that suggestion has been achieved. Although doing so requires some repetition, the reader benefits by not having to refer to other chapters while perusing the subject at hand.

CHAPTERS

1. AN OVERVIEW OF ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 AND ANSI/ASSP/ISO 45001-2018

ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 is titled Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems and ANSI/ASSP/ISO 45001-2018 is titled Occupational health and safety management systems—Requirements with guidance for use.

A third edition of Z10.0 was approved in August 2019. Major changes were made in relation to the content of previous editions. The 45001 standard is a new international standard that was approved in 2018.

While the titles are similar and some of the names for Clauses in the standards are close to the same, the standards have significant differences. They are highlighted. ...