Safe Working Practice

Documented guidelines and working methods which identifies how a task or tasks can be carried out with minimum risk to a worker (thereby including a risk assessment) , bystanders and others, or features in their working environment, for example, buildings, cars, etc. A safe working practice might also be called a safe system of work, which in this context is limited to the particular activity being documented, rather than a wider more general provision of an organisation wide safe system of work which encompasses all systems aspects such as quality assurance, quality control, etc.