Using TOC Thinking Process Tools to Improve Safety Performance

TOC thinking process tools are unique in their ability to improve safety performance in enterprises where the heavy economic losses and casualties occur due to a variety of health and safety accidents. Safety management is a very complex system that includes human, machine management, and environmental factors. Therefore, it is challenging to improve safety performance. Thinking Process (TP) is a systematic thinking tool used to identify the core problem of a complex system. Firstly, the traditional Theory of Constraints TOC and TP are introduced. Secondly, the TOC for safety management is compared with the traditional TOC. Thirdly, a modified TOC thinking process for on-going improvement of safety performance is presented and the application procedures are given. Finally, an example for application of modified TOC thinking process is given.