Safetitude - Now a year’s Toddler


One year back on this day 6th July, a thought in the form of Safetitude (Attitude of safety) took birth. Since then, several campaigns to raise bar of Safety performance is on. In this journey, 51 articles and 106 posts as extracts of my experience of the HSE domain shared on e-media and are still counting on. Readers, mostly from the HSE fraternity have been kind enough in expressing with their “likes”, “comments”, ‘Query” and of course a few with “disagreement” too. The response from HSE practitioner is natural however; a few in numbers from other core business function is discouraging. The culture of good safety will never be flourishing unless this will become an integral part of values to all those (Sr. Executives) who are influential in their organisation.
 
On this day, I would like to say couple of other things candidly. 
At times, I have been harsh in expressing my views with writing unconventionally so that older ineffective approaches to safety get replaced. Angers also appeared somewhere if I observed safety practitioners – new and even experienced, asking for readymade checklist, plan, rules etc. To make context clearer, I wish to reproduce exactly the conversation that went on in one group till I snubbed. One fellow asks “Can I keep Argon cylinder in direct sun during construction job & why”.  A person responds with advice “may be due to sunlight the cylinder becomes hot and thus more pressure can be received”. Another chap replied with”Argon is inert gas, it does not get pressurised with sunlight”. Now I leave it to you to decide what is wrong! 
I am connected to many old timer colleagues and other practitioners of my field on social network like LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, Twitter etc. I feel pity on a few because when I mail or make a call to speak, they feel I am exploring some business prospect with them. Business! Not at all. I am in to this domain out of my choice and not by chance and more over I am still in active service for further more 8 years. I feel high when I share my experience and knowledge gained broadly with high influence on me of the fantastic book “Psychology of Safety” authored by E. Scott. Geller. My way of working for past 25 years of demonstrated safety improvement got reinforced with ultimate approaches to safety established through researches are contained in this book. I wish every practitioner read this book and try to apply some of these.

In Conclusion, I like all people working in an industrial and community set-up to bring paradigm shifts in approaches to safety to meet ever increasing HSE challenges of the time so as to accomplish the noble cause of saving someone’s life. 

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