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.

Hazard Elimination, is It Achievable Target?

...the hazard and potential hazard will always exist out there...

As Safety Engineer, we have responsibility to prevent any accidents and losses that may happen in our plant. We are the person whom believed capable to control the hazard. In other side, as a normal human, do you believe that by our limitation is it possible to stop the hazard just like what we (or our company) want?.

To manage the potential loss(es) cause such as hazard and potential hazard is our job. It is off course possible to do. That is an achievable target. But, it is different with stop or eliminate the hazard or potential hazard. I told you, you will off course control the hazard by doing adequate hazard management programs. And reducing the risk level of accident and loss(es) that may happen. But remember, the hazard and potential hazard will always exist out there. That is way I say, Hazard is impossible to be eliminate. What we can do is control, a maximum effort is reducing the accident and loss risk. Because there is exact formula for us, wherever workplace exist, the hazard and potential hazard will always follow to appear there (workplace = human + tools + material = Output + Process + hazard).