28 Occupational Safety Management
ANALYZING RISKS TO ORGANIZATIONAL ASSETS
An effective occupational safety management system demonstrates a careful evalu-
ation of how much occupational safety is needed to protect organizational assets.
Occupational safety managers must realize that too little occupational safety means
that organizational assets can easily be compromised, while too much occupational
safety can make assets hard to use or so degraded that performance is negatively
affected. Occupational safety must be inversely proportional to an asset’s utility. It
is given that there is always going to be risk associated with assets and activities.
The only way to completely eliminate the risk would be, in many cases, to make that
asset inoperable ...