Before we get on with the nuts and bolts of the activities to pluck out various  deficiencies at work place, we should have a strategy in place and the whole team should be committed to it.

A set of strategies could very well be as listed below.

 • SH&E is a line management responsibility. Ownership and accountability for SH&E performance is embedded in the line at all levels and Line Managers are responsible for providing SH&E leadership and for development and implementation of SH&E management plans for their areas of responsibility.

• There is a consistent risk-based approach to SH&E management with appropriate emphasis on high severity, low probability events as well as low severity, higher probability events. Resources are allocated and activities prioritised on the basis of risk; and

• Appropriate training is in place to equip all personnel to carry out their tasks so as to take care of themselves, others and the environment.

Pl think of the following in context of the above strategic points–

Company culture flows from top to bottom and not the other way round…

You very seldom fulfil your responsibilities without having requisite authorities….

Standard you walk past are the standards you set…

One should train, train and train till it becomes a habit, remember which shot Saurav Ganguly practiced whole night in hotel room after he got out playing that shot earlier in the day in test Match against England…

We will discuss next how to implement these strategies at work place.

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!!

SHE Strategy

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Industrial Explosives in India...beginning made in 1958

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