Safety & Health System Components

• A system is an established arrangement of components that work together to attain a certain objective, in this case to prevent injuries and illnesses in the workplace. 
• Within a system, all parts are interconnected and affect each other.

All elements of a safety and health system are interrelated. All pieces are related to all other pieces. A flaw in one piece will probably impact all the other pieces, and therefore the system as a whole.

• Management leadership and employee involvement are tied together because one is not effective without the other. A plant manager can be totally committed, but if employees follow blindly or are not involved, problems will only temporarily be solved.
• Management must provide the resources and authority so all personnel can find the hazards in the worksite and, once found, to eliminate or to control those hazards.
• Training is the backbone of this system. For management to lead, for personnel to analyze the worksite for hazards, and for hazards to be eliminated or controlled, everyone involved must be trained.
• No parts of this system exist independently. An effective and functioning program is the sum of all the parts.