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About The Vertical Safety Technique |
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What is Vertical Safety?
Vertical Safety is in principle a business technique or process that optimizes safety in any organization (even countries), by vertically integrating horizontal layers of technical and managerial endeavor. See the Safety Pyramid for more information.
The above depiction shows horizontal layers affecting safety where a bottoms-up, vertically oriented, iterative process resulting in a positive spiraling safety output is achieved. That is why the end result of the process is sustainable, i.e. safety is determinable and therefore sustainable.
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How This Safety Strategy Will Save You Money |
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Any safety strategy will improve competitiveness according to the following World Economic Forum graph.
However, too much safety can cause problems due to excessive costs and reduced productivity. Excessive costs are typified by excessive insurance premiums and reduced productivity is typified by project management workday definitions changing from 6, down to 4 hour “man-days”.
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Industries That Can Use The Vertical Safety Technique |
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Almost every industry can benefit from having a sound Safety Strategy in place. The benefits of having a safe organisation are many but more often than not, having a comprehensive Safety Strategy will have financial, morale and time benefits.
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