5 E's Safety Module

v    Engineering Application

            By the engineering application, major part of safety problem can be controlled or eliminated.  Engineering in safety begins even from blue print stage of any factory.  Potential hazards are to be considered at design stages to avoid production losses to reduce accident and to save cost on re – designs or replacement of equipment.  The participation of safety specialist form planning stage will definitely help in building a safe factory environment.  Such co – ordinates can also result in better housekeeping provisions lighting, ventilation, and flooring, built in safety guard to machines, Installation of standard electrical panel good efficient treatment method etc.

            There are six steps to be applied for safety programs involving engineering revisions.

Ø    Identification of hazards.

Ø    Substitution of hazardous or elimination of hazardous substances, operation and arrangements.

Ø    Enclosing or guarding the hazards by technical means

Ø    Isolation of hazard from normal working environment

Ø    Diluting the harmful environment

Ø    Provide personal protective equipment in the case of above fine steps could not give total safety.  This step can be adopted as an additional safety measure.

The safe physical environment may become unsafe in due course of production process when engineering applications are used to rectify.  Such a situation we have to keep in mind that unsafe situation can again come up of proper maintenance is into made at proper time and proper education for the employees s not given continuously

v    Education and Training

            Due to lack of proper knowledge many accidents occur in our daily life.  Repetitive creation of unsafe condition, exposure to physical hazards, and doing unsafe condition due to lack of knowledge, improper attitude or ignorance on the part of employees.  The employees are given necessary training even at the initial stage of appointment to an assigned job.  If the content is designed to teach an experienced employee for accommodating the changed situation, he will get more skills in his job and will do few mistakes in procedures.  For safety working specific training and education is needed for any employee.  Sometime people may forgot proper procedure or may become over confident in their job.   This also creates accidents.  Hence refreshes training courses are needed frequently.  Supervisors will be best medium for giving effective training to their subordinates.

            ­After getting proper education and training can bring vast difference in the quality of work.  Effective training may be useful in improving productivity, turnover and developing good industrial relationship.  But even today many industrial establishments don’t recognize the need of training and its importance.  Thus it is a time change the attitude and introduces the proper training to its people.  Depending upon the demand of the situation suitable training program should be selected certain individual may lead specific knowledge skill and attitude, certain individuals may need training to suit their new jobs or for improving their capabilities.

v    Enthusiasm

            When an injurious accident occurs in an industry, it is sure that everyone becomes enthusiastic about safety.  Had the same enthusiasm prevailed always in the working environment accidents can very well be avoided to a considerable extent?  Hence, a safety practitioner may have to motivate not only the employee but also the management personnel.  Rather than primary duty begins with winning the confidence of the management personal in the strategies he put forth.

            For conveying the management about the nobility and benefits of accident prevention a safety practitioner must put for the various advantages projecting the economic benefits of safety will be the most one.  Any management can easily understand the language of profit.  Benefits achieved from decreased payment in compensation, reduction ‘n’ insurance premium, and minimized manpower losses and medical expenses can be calculated easily.  The indirect financial benefits are many times higher than those of direct benefits.  These benefits shall also highlight Maslow’s theory of “Need hierarchy” explain that satisfaction is the limit of need for any human being.

            Absence of hygienic factors like salary welfare facility etc. may dissatisfy people.  But presences of this factor are not helpful in motivating anyone. 

v    Enforcement

            For achieving better performance in the field of industrial safety and management should encourage.  It’s personal to follow safety rules and procedures.  The rules formed should be simple and understandable and should be avoiding conflict of opinion.  The management should say that the rules are formed only when they are essential.  The rule should not be too much, to confusion and frustration among people. 

v    Encouragement

              Safety minded people might have many innovative ideal for improving safety in their field of work. Favorable company climate can encourage such people through proper suggestion schemes.  They may give suggestion in the area of production quantity, procedural changes and system improvement in manufacturing process, welfare facilities etc.  There can be a safety suggestion scheme along with the above scheme of company. To encourage worker of different industries government of India has formulated a national award scheme named Shram veer NationalAward or Vishwakarma National award.

           Introduction of safety incentive schemes are found to give encouraging results.  Depending upon size and safety performance of the company in company incentive scheme and interplant incentive schemes can be improvement in percentage reduction of accident or accident free period.

            Safety inventory system is another method by which the management can develop safety confidence among employees.  In this method, a well-framed question format will be prepared and circulated among a selected 30% of the employ of a section.