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SAFETY MANAGEMENT ITS RESPONSIBILITIES

July 2, 2018

Industry society and safety

SAFETY MANAGEMENT ITS

RESPONSIBILITIES
Safety Management Defined 
We can define the safety management as ‘The accomplishment of safety
objectives by first establishing the safety objectives and then by attaining
them through the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and
controlling i.e. motivating and coordinating all efforts to attain those
objectives and also innovating to improve them for the future.

Safety Organization (higher level management) can also be defined as a

definite, planned and organized set up whose purpose is to enlist and maintain
the combined efforts of organized personnel for the purpose of total loss
control including accidents and environmental protection in an industry or
establishment. 

In a small unit where there is no safety officer or department or group of

persons for safety activity, even a single person -supervisor, occupier or
worker should assume the duty of safety management.

CLICK HERE FOR ? [Main] Principle of industrial safety management

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Industries are inevitable – in modern society because human needs of foods,

clothes, homes, amenities, luxuries, services and knowledge are to be fulfilled.

It is also required for employment. Wants of modern society are day by day
increasing with the increase in population, invention, technology,
industrialization and human desires.

How to produce, distribute and supply all such wants to the whole humanity?
Mass production is possible by industries only. Distribution and supply are
possible by trade and business. Therefore place of industry is ahead, vital and
most desirable.

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System

We cannot eliminate industry from society. Only its hazards are to be

eliminated and for this purpose, the safety management is desired. As place of
industry in society is inevitable, similarly the place of safety in industry is also
inevitable, because safety is most required in industries.

Industrialization has been defined by Dr. Luigi Parmeggiani as “the process

of change in the mode of production to utilize more capital per unit of output,
higher levels of technology and management widening with cost economics of
scale and specialized location of plant, type of plant and skills”.

Industrialized country has been defined as one that derives more than 30% of
its gross domestic product (GDP) from manufacturing, while a semi
industrialized country derives 20 to 30%, an industrializing country between
10 to 19% and a nonindustrial country less than 10% from the same source.

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Accident problem created by the. Increasing number of accidents and their

costs with rapid industrialization call for accident prevention work.

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This is an essential task for every management. Occupational hazards,

accidents and diseases, are to be prevented by providing protection to men
and machines, by good maintenance, medical health checkups, good working
and living

Conditions, prompt and effective legislation and last but not the least by
constant education, training and motivation of workers to work safely.

Thus, a place of safety in industry must be accepted and strengthened by

providing efficient safety management.

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Safety Management’s Role: 

This is a many-fold role as described in eleven heads as under –

General and Scientific Functions

The basic safety role of any industrial management is well derived from the
five steps of accident prevention suggested by H.W. Heinrich.

These are organization, facts finding, analysis of the facts found, selection of
remedy and application of the remedy.

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The six functions of scientific safety management are:

1. Planning: It includes setting salty objectives, formulating safety policy,

safety programming, budgeting and determining safe or standard
procedures. Good planning at the design stage always helps. Planning for
site, effluent disposal, facilities for storing and handling raw materials,
intermediates and products, types of floor, roof, construction, lighting,
ventilation, layout of machinery, pressure vessels, lifting machines,
‘hazardous processes, boilers, storage tanks, repair services, auxiliaries,
utilities, fire protection, training, welfare and sanitary facilities etc., must
consider safety points at this initial stage so that the planning and design
defects can be eliminated or minimized from the beginning. Previous plans
approval and correction after operation are also necessary.

2. Organizing: It includes establishment of the formal structure of authority

through which work subdivisions are defined, arranged, and co-coordinated
for the planned safety objectives.

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An organizational set-up describes four classes of management – Top or

Executive, Intermediate, Middle and Supervisory management. The set-up
may vary according to the size and nature of establishment, A model safety
organization is shown in below picture.

The Company Board decides the safety policy and objectives and monitors its
implementation. Managing Director is re-portable to the Board for
implementation of safety policy.

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SAFETY

Safety executive or safety department reports to MD. Managers are

answerable to the Safety Department or Executive for application of the safety
arrangements.

Supervisors are re-portable to the Managers for shop floor extension and
application of safety policy, rules and procedures. Workers are ‘responsible to
their supervisors for effectively carrying out the safety rules and precautions.

Safety Representatives selected from workers and supervisors advise and

assist to Safety Committee for promoting health and safety. Safety Committee
advises on all matters of safety and health to the Managers and the Managing
Director.
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FACTORIES ACT

3. Staffing: It includes personnel function of recruitment and training the staff

and maintaining safe and favorable conditions of work through personnel.

4. Directing: It is a continuous desk of taking decisions, ordering, instructing,

guiding and advising on all matters of safety.

5. Controlling: It includes performing, evaluating and correcting the

performance according to objectives, procedures and plans. it is concerned
with quality, times, uses and cost m safety matters.

6. Co-coordinating: It includes interrelating and synchronizing the different

activities for achieving safety goals.

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