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The construction industry encounters high fatality and injury rates and is far away from achieving a zero-injury goal. Thus, effective safety management systems are critical to ongoing efforts to enhance safety. An appropriate definition of safety management systems is required, and therefore the elements included during a safety management system should be identified to be employed by practitioners to enhance safety. A variety of safety management systems are introduced by researchers and organizations. Most have been developed based on the root causes of fatalities and injuries within organizations. This paper gives an overview about different safety management systems in various fields to identify the similarities and differences in the systems. The objective of the review is to demonstrate the state-of-the art research on a spread of safety management systems and related different methods of measurement. This paper also includes background studies of developing safety management systems. The primary contribution of this review to the body of data is providing insights into existing safety management system and their critical elements including appropriate methods of safety performance measurement, which may enable owners, contractors, and decision makers to settle on and implement elements. This paper also includes application of sensors based technology in safety management of construction industry.