Where Birds Don't Fly

That an organization has a non-punitive policy is an organizational and senior management statement of accountability and a commitment of support for improved job-performance. In many With the stroke of a pen the reactions to future events are set. organizations, personnel job-performance has reached its limits with little, or no room for improvements, until there are unexpected and major quality flaws or improper customer services discovered. Sometime these events are named “mistakes” which initiate the process of learning-stagnation and there is no further action to learn from this “mistake”. Applying the non-punitive reporting policy is a policy to learn from mistakes and train for improvements. A safety management system should include any requirements for an effective and continuous improvement of the SMS system. A non-punitive policy is a system-design regiment to be included as any additional requirements for the safety management system. This requirement is not a specific non-p...

A non-punitive policy is not a “get-out-of jail free card”, but a policy for continuous, or continual safety improvements within an SMS system. When a non-punitive policy is understood within an Writing a non-punitive policy is a skill of quality assurance. organization all personnel have an opportunity to raise safety concerns and report hazards as their contribution to safety improvement. When hazards are not identified, they are latent and unknown risk factors with a potential to cause an incident or accident. In organizations where there is no training provided for understanding the non-punitive policy, the doors are left wide open to apply the policy to any non-job performance activities. When a non-punitive policy is applied as a “get-out-of-jail” free card it could be applied to report excuses for inferior job performance rather than reporting specific to the hazard, or incident itself. Applying a non-punitive policy as a safety-excuse tool is when contributors reports on themse...