Health and Safety Critical Control Management Guide

HEALTH AND SAFETY CRITICAL CONTROL MANAGEMENT GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE: ICMM

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This document, one of a range of documents on good practice in health and safety management, is designed to support the
principle of continual improvement. It provides practical guidance on preventing the most serious types of health and safety incidents, referred to here as material unwanted events (MUEs).

This guidance document provides advice on how to identify and manage critical controls that can either prevent a serious incident
occurring in the first place or minimize the consequences if a serious incident were to occur. Both types of control are needed. Evidence from major incidents in mining and metals, and in other industries, indicates that although the risks were known, the controls were not always effectively implemented. Therefore, this document provides specific guidance on:
• identifying the critical controls
• assessing their adequacy
• assigning accountability for
their implementation
• verifying their effectiveness
in practice.

The approach described in this document is called critical control management (CCM).