Safety House: A developed Framework to Improve Safety Performance among Highly Risky Industries

The concept and importance of Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSM) have extensively been discussed in previous literature. This study, however, focuses on reviewing and addressing gaps in all health and safety management models from 1990 – 2018 to develop a new safety model known as the “Safety House” to address all significant gaps in previous models. The findings of this study show that most previous models have either ignored safety leadership or safety commitment as one of the most important elements that can improve workplace safety. The concept of integration and relationships among all previous models were not clearly established. The innovation of this study highlighted the importance of integrating safety leadership and safety commitment into all phases of continuous health and safety management practices. The study as well addresses the issue of employees' involvement in safety planning before and after implementation. This is an initiation that has not benefitted the needed attention in almost all previous safety models.