A safety management system is crucial to putting your work health and safety plans, policies and procedures into practice on a day-to-day basis. Further, it serves as the main tool for preventing safety incidents in the future using data collected from your work activities day to day.

Safety management systems are important for all sectors of businesses as every workplace has inherent risks that need to be mitigated. Every workplace is exposed to some form of risk, whether it be psychological, physical, chemical, electrical etc.

In this article we will cover what a safety management system is, why they are important and outline what makes a quality safety management system. Further, we also discuss why we believe an active safety software is the best choice for businesses and why most fail to achieve safety success with their software.