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Safety Capability Building to Improve Safety Benchmarking

Introduction to Safety Capability Building article

Capability is the capacity to realize individual and Organisational goals in a sustainable way through the development of people. It focuses on people’s confidence and emotional intelligence in applying the knowledge, skills, attributes and behaviours in a range of contexts within an organisation.

In the safety field for manufacturing or any type of organisations such as even schools, hospitals, any capability development program should cover following aspects

1) Technical Safety

2)  Cultural Safety

3)  Safety Management System

Improving Safety to zero incident goal is the real Programme for all TheSafetyMaster™ customers and contractors. It provides a common and consistent approach to improving the overall safety capability across customer organisation.

There are three main levels in the programme: 19

Beginner – an online introduction to safety improvement

Practitioner – Inhouse Course that helps you put learning into practice

Master – improvement class where your coaching supports staff doing their projects

Any Capability program or plan must focus on knowledge, skills, attributes and behaviours that enable workers to perform work safely. It includes, but is not limited to, mandatory licensing, job-specific competencies and safety leadership development. Competency focuses on the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attributes to fulfill the requirements of a particular task in the workplace. Developing skills and knowledge is just one aspect of capability development. Being able to apply those skills in different contexts, with confidence, differentiates skill and capability

The outcome of successful safety capability development program ensures following capitals retained by organisations in long term

The capitals are the resources that combine to produce safety capability. The three capitals encompass the various skills, communication processes, and organizational systems that combine to create highly reliable operations. 

Organisational Capital: Resources derived from institutional knowledge, operating procedures and systems, Organisational routines.

Social Capital: Resources derived from social interaction, organizational culture, and communication networks.

Human Capital: Resources derived from the knowledge, skills and experience of individuals.

Some of safety capability development programs we suggest are

Safety Culture

•Behavior Based Safety

•Safety Perception Survey

•Safety Culture Transformation

•Safety Management System

•Safety Performance Management

Expert Safety

•HAZOP

•Qualitative Risk Analysis

•Thermography

•Flammable Material Study

•SIL

•Hazardous Area Classification

People Safety

•Office Safety

•School & Hospital Safety

•First Aid

•Electrical Safety

•Lockout Tagout

•Laboratory Safety

•Confined Space

•Work at Height

•Scaffolding

•Forklift Safety

•PPE

•Legal EHS Essentials

•Road Safety

Process Safety & Risk Management

•Process Safety Management Training

•Risk Assurance

•Emergency Planning & Response

•Incident Investigation

•Mechanical Integrity & Quality Assurance

•PSSR

•Process Hazard Analysis

•Risk Management

•Facility Siting

Fire Safety System

•Fire Fighting

•Fire Risk Assessment

•Fire Protection System Design

Why is it important to think ahead about building improvement capability?

While there have been many thousands of people trained in improvement skills over the past decade, there is a strong sense that this has not yet translated into teams and organisations having sufficient expertise to be able to effectively achieve the scale of improvement they are seeking. All too often people who have attended training courses then seem to disappear, rather than having the opportunity and support to put what they learn into practice. It will help inhouse Safety & Risk Management

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Hazardous Area Classification by TheSafetyMaster

Hazardous Area Classification Consulting and Training by TheSafetyMaster

TheSafetyMaster™ is a globally recognized name imparting valuable training in Industrial Process safety and standards. Upholding the same tradition and values, we are proud to share our latest article in Hazardous Area Classification. Our Course is designed to meet the requirements of one of DSEAR, BIS5572, IEC codes, BS/EN codes, NFPA. AS/NZS 47 helpful for classifying hazardous areas in chemical industry and use of electrical equipments

What is Hazardous Area

In simple words, areas with any chance of Fire accident or explosion are marked as Hazardous area due to flammable dusts or vapors. Here, we learn to identify and control them to avoid any serious damage to resources. In one hand, this Classification will help you to do business in conformity with the legal compliances. On the other, it will ensure the physical safety of resources minimizing the penal fees and charges. Our Courses Content enables one to understand the cause-effects and related safety measures.

What is important while classification of hazardous areas

ü  References or codes to be used

ü  Division and Zone classification

ü  Temperature Class and Gas Groups

ü  Statutory requirements and International best practices

ü  Drawing development and review

ü  Case studies aided by practical demos and Video illustrations

How TheSafetyMaster™ can help

Our consultants are having hands-on expertise in Process Safety Management and are well-versed in Process Safety directives issued by CCPS-AICHE or any international societies in process safety such as NFPA, IEC, BIS. Their respective experience will help your company to avail following services

1)      Hazardous Area Classification Course-2 Days Inhouse

2)      Hazardous Area Classification Study-Inhouse

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HAZOP Training And Study by TheSafetyMaster

HAZOP Training/Certification by TheSafetyMaster™

(Hazard and Operability Analysis)

TheSafetyMaster™ is a leading name in the field of HAZOP Training and Certification Programme. We are conducting several HAZOP training and studies analyses every year for numerous Clients. HAZOP, as we know, is a structured and systematic technique for system examination and risk management. There are very few training courses out there that teach the HAZOP study technique thoroughly well, in a structured manner and we are offering you the very same. Our Course objective is to provide participants with the background of how process hazard analyses (PHA’s) are performed. An integral part of PHA’s is the process HAZOP.

Who can join this Course?

Our Students are Managers, Operations and maintenance staff, process reliability and quality control/assurance staff and anyone who needs a general understanding of the HAZOP process.

What do we teach?

Our Experts have developed a range of specific and valuable open courses and training opportunities designed for relevant implementation, monitoring and sustainability of process safety programmes. TheSafetyMaster™ HAZOP Certificate Training will equip you with the knowhow to carry out HAZOP Drills; planning, preparation and facilitation of HAZOPs and process of follow up and report the findings. The interrelationship between HAZOPs, hazard identification (HAZID) and human factors are also covered. Hazardous Area Classification in Chemical Industry where HAZOP comes much handy is an important part of the Course.

 Our HAZOP Trainers:

TheSafetyMaster™ HAZOP Course Faculty includes numerous process safety and chemical engineers who specialise in the expert delivery of top quality HAZOP courses. You will find that around half of the Course involves carrying out a practical HAZOP efficiently guided by our Trainers.

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Behavior Based Safety by TheSafetyMaster

The ‘Culture’ of an organization can be defined as ‘the way we do things around here’. Culture is both the first and last line of defense against injury and loss. More specifically, safety culture ensures that employees follow designated processes and systems, and when those processes fail and those systems break (and they always do), a good culture will assert itself to drive the proper response. Here are some important characteristics to note:

·                  Culture is defined as a shared set of common values, experiences, beliefs, and characteristics

·                  Culture is learned by observation, experience, and example, it is not taught

·                  Culture is a living entity – it requires investment or it will rot

·                  Culture is messy

·                  The culture of safety is those values and beliefs that are commonly shared in work place operations                     – It is heavily influenced by factors outside the workplace

The Need for Cultural Change

Many organizations endeavor to improve workplace safety performance through both task and hardware approaches.

Typically, in the past, these have focused on physical design and its relationship to employee performance and so engineers and ergonomists have dominated the safety arena. More recently they have been joined by sociologists and psychologists who try to explain accident involvement and poor safety performance in terms of attitudes, safety climate and/ or organizational culture. The first of these approaches involves attempting to change employee attitudes and reduce accidents through the use of publicity campaigns, safety training or disciplinary actions. It can be recognized as the 'traditional' approach to improving safety performance. Other approaches tend to adopt the method of workplace survey (that is, interview and questionnaire techniques) with the aim of diagnosing problems.

So, the challenge to continually improve safety performance remains a key activity for many organizations. Indeed, managers and safety directors responsible for improving safety performance has contacted us asking for help because they believe that they have reached some sort of plateau. They have felt unable to drive down the level of accidents any further by the use of traditional means. Now, a growing body of evidence suggests that a shift in focus from traditional approaches to a behavior-based approach to safety improvement can further improve workplace safety performance and will reduce the number and the severity of occupational accidents.

High Cost of Ineffective Safety Management

Failure to manage safety effectively in the workplace is evident and the penalties are high. Each year, there will be lost to business through occupational accidents and illness.

·   2 accidental deaths in the workplace

·   2,500 reportable injuries

·   9,000 work injuries

·   250,000 thousand 'near misses'

ü  7 out of 10 occupational accidents (and cases of ill-health) could easily have been prevented

ü Over 2,000 lives a year could have been saved if health and safety laws were followed by employers and employees.

·   Time and costs due to repair of plant and equipment

·   Increased insurance premiums

·   Fines/ legal costs

·   Medical expenses

·   The 'never quite the same again' implications, and/or long-term physical and psychological health problems.

Organizational Safety Profiling

Safety culture indicates that different levels of an organizational hierarchy have different influences on the safety culture. These levels need to be differentiated. In this text an organization is considered as having four levels:

1. Executive and senior management

2. Middle managers

3. Supervisors

4. The workforce teams (These can be plant designers, the plant operators, maintenance engineers, technicians and contractors, and so on, who are assumed to work under a supervisor)

The expert suggests that organizational culture arises from shared beliefs. These beliefs driving an organization’s collective behaviors are not always overt but in reality, are buried beneath observable supportive layers of values, attitudes and artifacts. It is suggested that beliefs and hence culture can only be assessed and interpreted indirectly through observing human behaviors.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

Specifically, this means that people will tend to repeat those behaviors that produce 'positive' consequences, and not repeat those that result in either no positive, or 'negative', consequences. In addition, they will also tend not to repeat behaviors that produce no consequences at all. In other words, people learn to behave in ways that produce rewards, and avoid behaving in ways that either produces no rewards or even punishment. This may appear to be simply applied common sense. By providing a theoretical structure, we enable managers to make more effective use of the techniques.

                                  

Only your mindset can change your belief!!

                   

Typically, many companies wait for 'something to happen' before they take action. Usually this occurs when a situation reaches an unacceptable level. Figure 4 illustrates this concept. When accidents (or production problems, or quality issues) are at a very low level management tends to be relaxed and their attention is focused on some other 'alligator which is trying to sink their canoe' Essentially, 'their eye is not on the safety all'.

For much of the time accident levels remain at an acceptable rate which is 'comfortable' for management. Thus, it is known as the 'happiness zone', wherein managers adopt a recording and monitoring role. However, as the rate of injury or events rise to an unacceptable level or 'something happens’, the attention of management is triggered and this results in some form of action.

This behavior takes various forms, but is normally typified by much shouting, banging fists on tables, and exhortations such as, 'we can't go on like this - things have got to improve around here!' However, in time, accidents start to happen again and the cycle re-starts. Within this traditional approach, safety improvement is a 'boom or bust' activity because only a few people are charged with the responsibility for safety.

                

Behavior Approach - Mindset & Risks

In the behavior-based approach to continuous safety improvement, many more people take responsibility or safety and 'keep their eye on the ball', every day, every shift. Shop-floor personnel take turns to act so observers within their own work group and continually measure safety performance through the use of a checklist which is regularly updated to take into account the changes that might take place in the work environment.

In these ways the approach stays alive and is not allowed to become stale or jaded. Neither can it be labeled as a 'flavor of the month ‘campaign. To summarize, in the behavioral approach the emphasis is on the encouragement of safe behavior, not the changing of attitudes or the use of discipline.

How can we help?

We at TSM TheSafetyMaster Private Limited offer the following services to enhance the Safety Culture in the industries:

1.       Safety perception survey

2.       BBS Training Capsules 

3.       BBS-SCT Implementation Process

4.       Risk assurance Program 

Contact us  at info@thesafetymaster.com  or call us to  7665231743 to know more on Behavior Based Safety training and certification subject of altering employee attitudes towards safety and in turn take care of present liabilities that persist owing to unsafe behaviors.