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Risk Management and Safety

BYU's Risk-Aware Approach & Active Safety Culture

Risk-Aware Approach is an institutional risk management strategy and treatment that promotes interdisciplinary responsibility and fosters collaborative engagement. It is designed to effectively balance, manage, and optimize risks and opportunities, ensuring alignment with institutional goals and objectives.

Risk Attitude Scale graphic - with a scale from Risk Seeking to Risk Adverse. On the left side, Risk Seeking includes unsafe and dangerous, higher costs, greater liability, and unchecked. In the center, Risk Aware includes Supported and Engaged, balanced, collaborative, and effective. On the right, Risk Adverse includes unrealistic and overbearing, push back, circumvention, and lack of trust and respect.

Active Safety Culture embodies a proactive, preventative, protective and resilient workplace where employees are empowered to prioritize safety and exemplify safe choices in their daily work. It reflects a leadership-driven commitment supported across all management and operational levels.

Be proactive, prevent harm, protect life and promote resilience

The Six Pillars of Safety Management are part of everyone's job at BYU. Safety management is important, whether you are a supervisor or being supervised. BYU has 6 pillars of safety. If you are working on each of these, you are on the right track in managing safety. If you would like assistance in any of these areas, please get in touch with the BYU Safety Manager at 801-422-4896.

BYU's 6 Pillars of Safety Culture (as listed below)

Leadership & Employee Involvement

  • Leaders, managers, and employees must collaborate to manage and promote a safety culture across all levels.

Training

  • Employees should receive relevant safety training as new hires, task-specific instruction, and regularly scheduled refreshers. Training sessions need not always be extensive; consistent reminders and reinforcement are key to maintaining safety awareness.

Policy and Procedure

  • BYU maintains campus-wide risk management and safety plans applicable to all departments, while departments must document additional, department-specific procedures and ensure employees are trained accordingly.

Hazard Identification & Control

  • Worksites should be continuously evaluated to identify safety hazards, and once identified, safety controls must be promptly implemented to mitigate risks.

Measure & Evaluate

  • Looking at trends and statistics will help determine where time and effort should be focused.

Safety Incident Management

  • A clear, documented protocol must be established to effectively manage minor and major safety incidents, ensuring swift response, resolution, and prevention of recurrence.