To fulfil Social Obligations
This is the first and very important reason. This means it is the obligation of everyone to protect himself and also assist in protecting others. It makes both managers and workers to interract and behave like one family.
It specifies as 'We must save lives'
'Do whatever it takes'
To fulfil Fiscal Obligations
This involves the financial benefits to be derived from safety programmes.Managers who are motivated to invest in safety understand the financial benefits derived from effective application of safety programs. The primary reason for "doing safety" shifts to maximizing profits. The goal is to fulfill the obligation to stakeholders to operate the business in a fiscally prudent manner. This deals with proactive and reactive action.
It specifies as 'We must save money'
'Do what we have to'
To fulfil Legal Obligation
This is the least effective strategy. The primary goal for managers is to fulfill the obligation to comply with safety rules. Managers want to stay out of trouble, so they do only what has to be done to meet minimum requirements.
It specifies as 'We must stay out of trouble'
'Do only what we have to do'
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Personal Hygiene
Personal hygiene means cleanliness. As we know that cleanliness is next to Godliness.
-washing our clothes
-washing our hands before eating
-washing our hands after using toilet
-covering of our food
-eating of warm food
What did you bring for lunch today? And where have you stored your lunch until it’s time to eat it?
If it’s a salmon sandwich with a creamy homemade dressing, let’s hope it’s freshly made and kept cold. If it’s a container of leftover meat, it had better not be sitting in your warm truck cab until your lunch break.
To prevent food-related illnesses, you have to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. This advice is even more important in warm summer weather, when foods at room temperature can spoil even more rapidly.
Cleanliness is also vital to food safety. Washing your hands and cleaning food preparation surfaces, containers and utensils can also stop the spread of foodborne diseases. There are a number of good reasons for following food safety guidelines. They are as follows:
-washing our clothes
-washing our hands before eating
-washing our hands after using toilet
-covering of our food
-eating of warm food
What did you bring for lunch today? And where have you stored your lunch until it’s time to eat it?
If it’s a salmon sandwich with a creamy homemade dressing, let’s hope it’s freshly made and kept cold. If it’s a container of leftover meat, it had better not be sitting in your warm truck cab until your lunch break.
To prevent food-related illnesses, you have to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. This advice is even more important in warm summer weather, when foods at room temperature can spoil even more rapidly.
Cleanliness is also vital to food safety. Washing your hands and cleaning food preparation surfaces, containers and utensils can also stop the spread of foodborne diseases. There are a number of good reasons for following food safety guidelines. They are as follows:
· discomfort
· pain
· nausea
· vomiting
· diarrhea
· cramps
· dehydration
· weight loss
· fever
· and death.
Temperature determines how quickly foodborne pathogens will grow. The danger zone is between 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) and 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius). In this temperature range, bacteria grow rapidly. Do not eat food that has been left at room temperature for more than two hours.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Safety Awareness
Safety Awareness is like almost everything else we do . . . it is learned, not instinctive. We are not born with awareness for safety concerns . . . in fact anyone who has a young toddler or grandchild knows this first hand as they see them going around doing unsafe things constantly.
Safety means 'freedom from accidents' and awareness means 'being concious'. It does mean that we should be concious of being free from accidents.
We learn through various means. Some learn by doing, others by watching, some by reading. Others learn by their mistakes or the mistakes of others which is one reason we post and talk about near misses and direct hits that we’ve had here and at other companies and locations throughout the country.
So how do you know you have developed good safety awareness? Here are some good examples of behaviors that suggest you have good safety awareness:
- Before you begin a job, you consider how to do it more safely
- You make sure you know how and when to use personal protective equipment
- Make sure you are provided with correct tool for the assignment
- As you work, you check you position to reduce strain on your body
- While you are working, you become aware of any changes in the area—people coming or going, jobs beginning or ending
- You start talking with others about safety
Monitor yourself today and see if you’ve got good safety awareness. If you don’t, one of the best ways to gain further awareness is to step back and take a hard look at your or a coworkers actions as they are performing a job. Watch for risky actions. You will learn and if you’re watching a coworker . . . share those observations with them to help them go home safely each and every day.
Safety means 'freedom from accidents' and awareness means 'being concious'. It does mean that we should be concious of being free from accidents.
We learn through various means. Some learn by doing, others by watching, some by reading. Others learn by their mistakes or the mistakes of others which is one reason we post and talk about near misses and direct hits that we’ve had here and at other companies and locations throughout the country.
So how do you know you have developed good safety awareness? Here are some good examples of behaviors that suggest you have good safety awareness:
- Before you begin a job, you consider how to do it more safely
- You make sure you know how and when to use personal protective equipment
- Make sure you are provided with correct tool for the assignment
- As you work, you check you position to reduce strain on your body
- While you are working, you become aware of any changes in the area—people coming or going, jobs beginning or ending
- You start talking with others about safety
Monitor yourself today and see if you’ve got good safety awareness. If you don’t, one of the best ways to gain further awareness is to step back and take a hard look at your or a coworkers actions as they are performing a job. Watch for risky actions. You will learn and if you’re watching a coworker . . . share those observations with them to help them go home safely each and every day.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Improtance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) are that things we wear to protect us from our job hazards. These includes:
- Overall; this is worn on our body to protect our body from all kind of hazard
- Hand gloves; these are worn on the hands to perform jobs.This protects our fingers and hands from bruises that could arise from the kind of job we do
- Safety boots; these are worn on our feet when working on sites. This protects our feet from nails, falling tools that could bruise the feet
- Hard hat; this is worn on the head to protect the head from falling objects
- Welding goggle; this is worn on the face to protect the eyes from rays, sparks and flying metals during any welding activities
- Nose muff; this is used to cover the nose from dust
- Ear muff; this is used to cover the ear from noise greater that 90dB.
There is always a danger in the work we do, but in order to minimise the extent of the hazard, it is important to wear our Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs). Do you put on your PPEs?
- Overall; this is worn on our body to protect our body from all kind of hazard
- Hand gloves; these are worn on the hands to perform jobs.This protects our fingers and hands from bruises that could arise from the kind of job we do
- Safety boots; these are worn on our feet when working on sites. This protects our feet from nails, falling tools that could bruise the feet
- Hard hat; this is worn on the head to protect the head from falling objects
- Welding goggle; this is worn on the face to protect the eyes from rays, sparks and flying metals during any welding activities
- Nose muff; this is used to cover the nose from dust
- Ear muff; this is used to cover the ear from noise greater that 90dB.
There is always a danger in the work we do, but in order to minimise the extent of the hazard, it is important to wear our Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs). Do you put on your PPEs?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Safety Awareness
Safety Awareness is like almost everything else we do . . . it is learned, not instinctive. We are not born with awareness for safety concerns . . . in fact anyone who has a young toddler or grandchild knows this first hand as they see them going around doing unsafe things constantly.
We learn through various means. -
Some learn by doing; others by watching; some by reading. Others learn by their mistakes or the mistakes of others which is one reason we post and talk about near misses and direct hits that we have had here and at other companies and locations throughout the country.
So how do you know you have developed good safety awareness? Here are some good examples of behaviors that suggest you have good safety awareness:
-Before you begin a job, you consider how to do it more safely
-You make sure you know how and when to use personal protective equipment
-As you work, you check you position to reduce strain on your body
-While you are working, you become aware of any changes in the area—people coming or going, jobs beginning or ending
-You start talking with others about safety
Monitor yourself today and see if you have got good safety awareness. If you do not, one of the best ways to gain further awareness is to step back and take a hard look at your or a coworkers actions as they are performing a job. Watch for risky actions. You will learn and if you are watching a coworker . . . share those observations with them to help them go home safely each and every day.
We learn through various means. -
Some learn by doing; others by watching; some by reading. Others learn by their mistakes or the mistakes of others which is one reason we post and talk about near misses and direct hits that we have had here and at other companies and locations throughout the country.
So how do you know you have developed good safety awareness? Here are some good examples of behaviors that suggest you have good safety awareness:
-Before you begin a job, you consider how to do it more safely
-You make sure you know how and when to use personal protective equipment
-As you work, you check you position to reduce strain on your body
-While you are working, you become aware of any changes in the area—people coming or going, jobs beginning or ending
-You start talking with others about safety
Monitor yourself today and see if you have got good safety awareness. If you do not, one of the best ways to gain further awareness is to step back and take a hard look at your or a coworkers actions as they are performing a job. Watch for risky actions. You will learn and if you are watching a coworker . . . share those observations with them to help them go home safely each and every day.
Safe Habits
In most everything we do, we find a way to make the process go easier and faster. These processes we develop become habits and are used not only at work but in our everyday activities as well.
Habit is an automated way of behaviour that is inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.
Some say it takes 21 days of continual monitoring and reminding yourself to develop a habit. Some of us have very good habits, some of us could use a little work. Let’s look at a few tasks:
- Do you fasten your seatbelt every time you enter an automobile to drive or sit at the passenger seat?
- Do you wear your Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during jobs onsite?
- Do you put in your hearing protection as you enter the production floor?
- Do you confirm the power is truly disconnected after you lockout a machine?
- Do you wash off dust of your entire windshield prior to getting in the car every mornings?
- Do you wear safety glasses and long pants when you use your weed wacker?
- Do you turn your head and check your blind spot prior to switching lanes?
- Do you make eye contact with the forklift drivers before walking near them?
- Do you utilize the handrail when going up or down stairs?
- Do you stop and look both ways before walking out into an aisle?
- Do you properly put off all appliances before sleeping at night and also before stepping out of the house?
- Do you use the correct tools for each activities you do onsite and at home?
- Do you take the pedestrian bridge when crossing the express?
These are just a few habits that safety conscious employees and people do each and every time they do the task. How about you?
Habit is an automated way of behaviour that is inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.
Some say it takes 21 days of continual monitoring and reminding yourself to develop a habit. Some of us have very good habits, some of us could use a little work. Let’s look at a few tasks:
- Do you fasten your seatbelt every time you enter an automobile to drive or sit at the passenger seat?
- Do you wear your Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during jobs onsite?
- Do you put in your hearing protection as you enter the production floor?
- Do you confirm the power is truly disconnected after you lockout a machine?
- Do you wash off dust of your entire windshield prior to getting in the car every mornings?
- Do you wear safety glasses and long pants when you use your weed wacker?
- Do you turn your head and check your blind spot prior to switching lanes?
- Do you make eye contact with the forklift drivers before walking near them?
- Do you utilize the handrail when going up or down stairs?
- Do you stop and look both ways before walking out into an aisle?
- Do you properly put off all appliances before sleeping at night and also before stepping out of the house?
- Do you use the correct tools for each activities you do onsite and at home?
- Do you take the pedestrian bridge when crossing the express?
These are just a few habits that safety conscious employees and people do each and every time they do the task. How about you?
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