Be careful about your safety. Don't let it happens and damage before
Accidents cause many losses in labor's lives and the industrial factorie's assets. In Some cases it is easy to estimate the damages clearly, but some cases it is not so.
The safety working environment development in the factory is very important to the successful working rnanagement in the industrial factories nowadays. Because it can reduce costs, save budgets, and encourage the employee's mind better.
But in the contrast, if there is any accident happened in the factory, even only one time, it can cause many things damaged, especially the factory image and bring about many bad effects.
Definitions in Safety
Hazard means the situation that tends to be injured in person, causes any loss end damage in assets or materials, or affect in the working ability in person.
Danger means the higher level of violence from hazard. Danger derived from hazard may be in high level or much or little depending on the protection policy in that place.
Damage means the violence of injury or physical loss or the happened loss in working operation or finance because of lacking the hazard or danger control.
Safety generally means being with no hazard which is impossible in practice to remove all hazard and danger out. So safety covers to the being with no danger happening in the most chance.
Accident means en event happened unexpectedly and caused injury, handicap, or death and lost some assets.
Safety Policy for Management
The way to develop safety in the factory should be determined as the clear policy and assigned by the executive committee or the executive officer of that factory to achieve the goal. The current safety management emphasizes in the main and important principles: the organization establishment, the operation planning, and control.
The 5 basic principles for management to guide the safety development way in the factory or the accident prevention theoretically and new concept are:
- Unsafe operation: the unsafe environment and number of happened accidents are the symptom of weakness or error in the management system.
- In some situations or environment you can forecast that it will cause the danger or trouble injury. So you should detect such situations, control and improve them.
- The safety development in the factory should manage as same as other duties in the factory. The executive should do this work by setting the achievable goal, planning, establishing the effective organization, and controlling and keeping track of results.
- The heart to ach the safety working work and effective is the duty and responsibility assignment to the right field or staff clearly and doing it seriously and continuously.
- The duty of safety development in the factory is to find and specify the weakness or error in the operation which can cause the danger or accident. For example, finding the reason that why the danger happened or asking that they practice the safety protection method in the right way and seriously or not.
The environment in the factory
The factory is counted to be an entrepreneur. The internal management is the management in labors, tools and equipments that support the engineering technology. This is one to the main component, so the people who relate with the factory-the staff and others-may involve or touch these things and have chance to be dangerous from using tools and equipments all the times. So it should have the safety engineering management to the factory for you and others to be safe.
People or staffs here mean all employees in the factory, engineers, and technicians. That is everybody in the factory. The danger is the hazard that may happen while they are working. It may come from their inexperience, lacking knowledge in their works, having the unsafe attitude and conscious, having no good sell-protection, being benighted, their carelessness, etc.
The current environment is another important factor. Even we train a lot of people, but they have to work in the bad environments-place, tools, equipments, air, light, heat, disease, animals or even the workmate, the boring routine works, the hurry of work, salary, long working time, etc. These factors involve in causing danger or facing danger.
The Safety Seller
Mr. Nopphadon Chongchananatee, the managing director of North Safety Equipment Co., Ltd.-the safety equipments in factory import company, unveiled about the marketing demand that the demand of the safety equipment in the factory is increasing because of the higher advanced industrial technology. So the company gets more acknowledge from the customers- In addition, they are legal controlled in this part. These factors also push the marketing more.
Nowadays, factories which give priority to the safety equipment in the factory mostly are the automobile assembly factories, petrochemical factories, chemical factories, etc.
"In fact, the laws about safety have been announced to become effective that the entrepreneurs with 100 employees or more have to have the safety equipments for the employees. But now the laws are modifying that it is unnecessary to have as much as 100 employees. If it is the industrial factory, it must use the safety equipments in that factory. Indeed, the laws force directly and indirectly, but the most using factories are the big industries and the safety-based industries especially the factories that invested by the foreigners. They will emphasize about the safety very much. The little using factories are the SME factories because they don't determine about the safety much and may neglect a little, so they don't do fully".
So that Mr. Nopphadon compared about the safety standard in Thailand and the leading industrial countries like Germany and Japan that Thai standard is still tar away. It may be because Thai laws are not strict much and the employees do not know about the importance of it as much as they should know. That is, they do as they used to do. They do because their familiarity. So when comparing about using the safety equipment, the rate in Thailand is little.
The safety in oversea, since the basic of safety system emphasizes in the employee's life-life is very valuable, so they see this point as the big issue. Because if there is any accident happened, the sue cost and fine is very high, so they prepare well by fully protection.
View of the person who never overlooks the safety
Mr. Nopphadon unveiled that the products which the factories emphasize to use in the accident protection at work in the factories are many kinds of mask, example-the air filter mask which used to protect the respiration system is one of the most important product, and the secondary ones are helmet and safety boots.
Since the mask is used in the chemical, dust, and all pollution protection system. Later people pay more attention because the environment is more pollution. People who work at the factories that have pollution, they emphasize in it especially, e.g., the petrochemical industry, the automobile assembly factories, and the factories using toxic material.
The safety equipment in an industrial factory which is important but overlooked belongs to the category that does not give fast side effects. For example, the dust filter mask which belongs to the category that gives that accumulated side effects, so it is overlooked in some cases. But the chemical protection mask which belongs to the category that gives fast side effects when people breathe, therefore they seek for it.
Nopphadon Chongchananatee
Modern Manufacturing
