Balancing Safety-How much Important?

With the increasing industrialisation with newest process technology, the challenge to safety to protect human being from dangers encountered in due course of employment is also increasing proportionately. In this situation, the approach to safety with yesterday’s tactics won’t yield good result. It is essential to consider each contributory cause of an accident while planning for good safety performance. To reach ultimately closer to ZERO accident - a long term vision, safety must compete with other business functions. In turn, safety management system needs to balance all elements of an accident causation model.
Apart from other paradigm shifts in safety, one such important shift is a thought process to see safety as a “system approach” and not as “piecemeal activity”. We see many organisation claims to ZERO accident for a few years randomly and all of a sudden, they experience spurt of accidents following years. The reason behind this is many but also is because of lack of having a holistic view for safety.
The situation can be understood by following “Safetitude Safety-Quadrant” module. According to this philosophy, accidents happen because of many factors falling largely in either of the two divisions namely Biotic and Abiotic. Biotic factors are those which is primarily contributed by person or other person nearby  and as such includes person’s education, knowledge, awareness, skill and/or his/her behavioural factors like attitude, value, faith, belief etc. Contrary to this, Abitoic factors are related to Environment around a person in terms of heat, noise, dust, radiation, and vibration, chemical and/or to machinery in terms of guards, process, ergonomic etc. An organisation needs to work out detailed program of short term and long term nature with integrating various safety tools e.g. Meeting, PTW, RA, HAZOP, SOPs, ONEP, BBS, Training, ergonomics etc to address factors related to all four quadrants.  

Therefore, it is most important to adopt a balance requiring attention to all quadrants of safety in order to achieve better and consistent safety performance.

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