To Meet
Safety, Health and Environment (SH&E) commitment and for achieving vision
for a safe workplace, one needs to have
Plant designed and maintained well
People trained adequately to act and
demonstrate good workplace behaviour and
Procedure covering system of work for
sustenance of plant integrity and people based controls
Now the moot
question is how do you ensure that the three legs (three Ps) are strong to give
stability to the platform on which the workplace safety, health of people and
environment protection rest?
Let us look
at a real life situation.
You are an
entrepreneur and have decided to set up a hazardous industry, say an industrial
explosives plant.
You will
hire a consultant or a person who will help you with the plant design,
construction work.
You will
then try to get hold of person(s) having experience in similar field who can
help you get a team ready for plant operation / maintenance
The same
core teams would help you with procedures or may handover set of procedures
available with them.
Now the
SH&E performance of your plant is largely dependent upon the sum total of
knowledge of the people who have helped you set up plant, train people and put
procedures in place.
Now just to
think what if there is a knowledge gap? There is something missing in either
plant design or knowledge being imparted to people or in procedure?
You may live
with such short coming for years without realising there is a time bomb ticking
and an accident is waiting to happen when the following happens:-
How to
safeguard against any such shortcomings at your workplace?
Watch this space for future posts!!
