Safety: Is the state in which the risk of harm to persons or of property damage is reduced to, and maintained at or below, an acceptable level through a continuing process of hazard identification and risk management.

• A safety programme is an integrated set of regulations and activities aimed at improving safety.
• A safety management system (SMS) is an organized approach to managing safety, including the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies and procedures.
• Hazard: Condition, object or activity with the potential of causing injuries to personnel, damage to equipment or structures, loss of material or reduction of ability to perform a prescribed function.
• Risk: The chance of a loss or injury, measured in terms of severity and probability. The chance that something is going to happen, and the consequences if it does.
• Risk Management: The identification, analysis and elimination, and/or mitigation to an acceptable level, of risks that threaten the capabilities of an organisation.
• Risk Probability: The chance that a situation of danger might occur.
• Risk Severity: The possible consequences of an unsafe event or condition, taking as reference the worst foreseeable situation.
• Risk Mitigation/Control: Measures to eliminate the potential hazard or to reduce the risk probability or severity.
• Safety Manager: Responsible individual and focal point for the development and maintenance of an effective safety management system.
• Accountable Executive:(CEO) Single, identifiable person with full responsibility for the organisation’s SMS.
• Safety Review Board (SRB):High level Committee with strategic safety functions to be chaired by the accountable executive.
• Safety Action Group:(SAG) comprises of a representative selection of line managers and supervisory staff of all sections of the organisation, charged with the responsibilities for assessing the risk associated with Agency’s Operations and suggest mitigation measures.
• Acceptable level of safety: Minimum safety performance that service providers should achieve while conducting their core business functions.
• Just Culture: Open non-punitive safety reporting culture.