A place for my personal thoughts/views on safety, with focus on industrial safety.
We are nothing after our death. Let us donate our body organs for the poor.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work The moment you fear, you are nobody - Swamy Vivekananda
If you think safety is expensive, try an accident... - O.P.Kharbanda
Preventable accidents, if they are not prevented due to our negligence, it is nothing short of a murder - Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna, 2nd President of India
Zero accidents through zero unsafe behaviors. Do not be complacent that there are no accidents. There may be near miss accidents (NMAs). With luck/chance, somebody escaped knowingly or unknown to the person. But, we can't be safe, if we depend upon the luck.
Safety culture is how the organization behaves when no one is watching.
We make No compromise with respect to Morality, Ethics, or Safety. If a design or work practice is perceived to be unsafe, we do not proceed until the issue is resolved. - Mission statement by S&B Engineers & Consultants Ltd. http://www.sbec.com/safety/
Human meat gets least priority - A doctor's comment on accidents
CSB video excerpts from Dr.Trevor Kletz, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQn5fL62KL8
Jan 16, 2021
Repetition of similar incidents - need for continuous reminder
Apr 2, 2013
Accountability for safety
- Create written safety policies and procedures
- Train employees on the safety policies and procedures
- Provide all the necessary equipment to do the assigned work
- Hold everyone accountable for compliance
- Both supervisors and employees provide feedback as to how work is being done Corrective action is taken as necessary
Accountability means, in his words, praising when correct things done and correcting when things are done the improperly. It should not be like knee jerk reaction to punish people when something goes wrong.
While writing safety policy and safety procedures, I feel, it should be written by involving all concerned employees. If it is written by manager or consultant in his office without interaction and active participation of employees, the ownership for the document will not exist with the concerned shopfloor employees and it is likely that they may not like to read and follow.
Jul 15, 2010
Who is responsible for accidents or incidents in an organization?
People are in limelight and showered accolades for achieving best production. At that time none of the shopfloor level employees will be recognized for the production levels.
Only when some failure or breakdown takesplace, then shopfloor persons will be questioned and punished. From this, we can see that punishments are for shopfloor employees and rewards and recognition are for managers. During delibration of investigation committees, the committee chairman will also be biased because somewhere else he is a manager or senior executive and will be of the opinion that he need not know what is happening at shopfloor and thus is not responsible.
But, Yes. He is responsible for achieving peak production levels. Or, for reducing the costs by process modifications.
But, No for accidents or reducing costs by stopping safety systems or bringing down the level of functioning of safety gear. Such is the appraisal system. Factories Act 1948 clearly holds the occupier of the company responsible for all activites though it exempts him provided he proves sufficiently that accident took place inspite of taking all efforts.
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