Saturday, 17 September 2016

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!!

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