Industrial Safety, Health & Environment Management

Lecture 3

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Industry Engineering Chemical , Petrochem, Petroleum, Agriculture, Pharma

11000 deaths, 2 million disabling injuries. Cost of accident :37 billion $

Management 4 MS Men Machinery. Materials, Money.

Safety Management-Principles & Practice

Safety management system (SMS) is a term used to refer to a comprehensive business management system designed to manage safety elements in the workplace. It is a systematic process for managing safety risks. The reduction of risk to a level that is as low as is reasonably practicable. There are three imperative for adopting a safety management system for a business these are ethical, legal and financial.

Safety Management-Principles & Practice

Industrial Safety Management: The accomplishment safety objectives by first establishing the safety objectives and then attaining through the process of planning, organising, staffing, executing, evaluating, controlling and directing. Safety Organisation: is defined as a definite and organised set up whose purpose is to enlist and maintain the combined efforts of organised personnel for the purpose of total loss control (including accident prevention in an industry).

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Identification of hazards and employing means of controlling the causes responsible for the presence of hazards in essence is the practice of safety management. Industrial Managements Role A. General Functions: Basic safety role of any industrial management is accident prevention Derived from five steps of accident prevention suggested by H. W. Henrich namely Organisation, fact finding, analysis, selection of remedy and application of remedy.

Functions of SHE Management

Planning: setting up of safety objectives, formulating safety policies, budgeting, and determining procedures. Planning at design stage helps. Planning for site, effluent disposal, planning for HSPD of Raw materials & finished products, types of floors, roof, construction, lighting, ventilation, layout of machinery, pressure vessels, boilers, fire protection, training & welfare, sanitary facilities.

Contd. Organising: It includes establishment of formal structures through which work subdivisions are defined, arranged and coordinated for planned objectives. Organisational set up may include four levels of management. TOP, Intermediate, Middel & supervisory. Safety Board >Safety Director >Managers >Supervisors> Workers>Safety representative.

Contd.. Staffing: include personnel function of recruitment and training the staff for maintaining safe and favourable conditions of work through personnel. Directing: continuous task of taking decisions, ordering, guiding, and advising as the leader of oragnisation Controlling: It includes performing, evaluating and correcting the performance according to plans.

Contd.. Coordinating: It includes interrelating, and synchronising different activities for achieving the common goal. B.Statutory: many statutes have provided general and specific liability, responsibility, or legal duties of management to achieve the desired safety targets. C.Overview of safety activities: Constant review of safety activities by the management to achieve the desired safety targets.

Contd. D. Division of Responsibilities: No Management can succeed without distribution of responsibilities at different levels or lines and proceeding through all levels. Responsibility: Duty or activity assigned to a given position Accountability: is an active measurement to ensure compliance with its intensions Authority: is the right to use power.

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Safety is a line responsibility: the line responsibility starts from top management. 1. legally and otherwise top management is responsible for safe mechanical, physical and all working conditions created by them and under their control. 2. Prevention of unsafe action of its work people 3. Proper selection and training of personnel 4. the occupier or factory manager so notified are responsible for compliance or breach of all statutory duties and liabilities.

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5. Line Managers have to carry out safety policy approved by the board they should promote and encourage awareness and willing acceptance of the importance of safety among their staff. 6. Senior Managers have a similar responsibility for safety as for productive output and should ensure that this responsibility is accepted and shared through out all supervisory levels. Carrying out safety policy, participating in safety committee, accident investigation, observing all safety rules in day to day work.

 E. Location of Safety functions: Area demarcation of plant, department, shop should be decided and distributed along with responsibilities. Reporting relationship, Hazop, JSA, training etc. Role of Safety & Purchase: Purchasing policy of the company should always consider safety aspect while placing the order of the machinery, tools, equipment, materials etc. approved list of vendors, good quality, reliability must be considered. Safety dept. should have good liaison with engineering & purchase.

 Role of supervisor or foremen: A supervisor is a chief worker in charge of group of workers who exercises such control over them delegated to him by management. A supervisor is important link or key man between management and workers.

 He is constant available on the shop floor, more close to workers, devoting more time in close observations of working conditions and action and more experience of job performance. He converts management policy into action with the cooperation of workers. Management looks him as shop floor manager in charge of men, machine and materials and responsible for mens behaviour on the job. Management achieves the production targets through supervisor and workers achieve their targets through supervisor.

 Role of worker: Most exposed to hazards. They are the first victim of accident, they are sufferers and pay for ill effects of occupation. They should realise that any accident prevention work is in their interest. Then only they will understand need of safety. They should be communicated time to time with accident figures, costs, compensation, co. losses etc. Checking of all guards before starting the work. Housekeeping, PPE, wrong habits at work place etc. should be known to them.

 Role of Trade Union: They should help management in the joint task of safety by playing following role. Checking and demanding for safe place, tools, machine, equipments, working conditions and environment for work. Training and insisting their members to use and maintain guards, safety devices, PPE, and follow safe work practices.

 Always maintain safe running of plant and safe closure of plants in case of emergencies. Checking for physical workload, working hours, shift and welfare facilities, statutory requirements for health and safety of workers.
Actively participating in all safety campaigns, safety programmes, seminars and type of motivational movements.

 Role of Safety Specialist He is an expert whose services are utilised by the management to guide or advise on the matters of safety.

He may be an engineer suggesting engineering controls or occupational hygienist or industrial psychologist etc.

 His role involves designing the layout of plant, suggest safety guards and devices, PPEs, safe working conditions, actions, methods procedures and all matters on statutory requirements. Investigation of accidents, hazards and risk assessment, education, training, seminars etc. *****