Friday, October 17, 2008

Accident is Hurt, But Safety Doesn't !

...when the accident happen, they just blame the operator that propose to the 'human error' factor of the accident. No matter how tired, and how big the work pressure they got from the job at a whole day...

Everybody want to be happy!. When I was a Safety Engineer at a Multinational Shoes Factory in Sidoarjo, I often heard that some managers are not happy with the safety talk program taken before their worker start to work for about 5 - 10 minutes. its proved by the decreasing number of safety talk group every week that we have been agreed at the formal meeting with the managers of production previously. Some of them are still commits but the others are not. They mentioned the reason, its the production time is so limited, while production target is so many.

Well, its not a surprise for me, since I knew that safety talk is defined as inefficient program since it will take effective working hour of every single employees. Then when the accident happen, they just blame the operator that propose to the 'human error' factor of the accident. No matter how tired, and how big the work pressure they got from the job at a whole day.

A safety refreshing program, such as safety talk is an effective program to build a main frame of safety for the worker, to become a safety minded person. But this will take a whole of years to maintain their awareness about safety. Think safety, work safely. No body is happy when the accident happen, both company and worker. The production will disturb or even stop because of this accident. So, one more again, let's think safety, and work safely because accident is hurt, but Safety doesn't!