Saturday, January 19, 2008

The Safety Committe

...The safety committee should not contain more than 20 peoples. The meeting should already fix and strategic agenda, so it will not take a long time...

When program is running, you as safety engineer are not the only one who responsible to the whole projects. There are some peoples who also dealing with this issue, even though they are not directly in charge in daily operational/ implementation. Those persons will coordinate and support safety program in their each department. Some of them are management representative, and the other are come from worker side. This team named safety committee. They have regular meeting. It's used to be monthly bases.

The safety committee is non structural, but functional organization. This committee will give recommendation and advise to the management regarding the safety aspect to achieve the highest productivity by reduction lost because of negative effect from poor safety management such as high frequency of accident, incident, fire, absenteeism, health problem, etc. The safety committee should not contain more than 20 peoples. The meeting should already fix and strategic agenda, so it will not take a long time. It is important to be concerned because some of the safety committee's component are structurally important in the company such as President Director or General manager as Safety committee chief.
The top management need to be included in this top organization because some recommendation from this committee are urgently need to be considered by decision maker of the company. While the safety engineer will acts as secretary.