Safety share discussions

Safety Share Discussions. Safety-sharing discussions can provide an effective safety meeting agenda. After the meeting gets started, simply go around the room and have all participants relate something safety related they have done within the last 24 hours (or 48 hours or even the past week). 

This simple awareness booster—"What have you done for safety "—helps teach an important lesson. Employees learn that safety is not only loss control, an attempt to avoid failure, but can be discussed in the same terms of achievement as productivity, quality, and profits. As a measurement tool, it is possible to count and monitor the number of safety shares offered per meeting as an estimate of proactive safety success in the work culture. 

Whereas numerous safety relief valves share many similarities, process safety interlocks are each individually tailored to the unique requirements of the process. The final parts of this chapter will discuss the critical process shutdown systems and the process safety alarms management systems used by three different major chemical plants. 

Perceived or Real Health and Safety Issues — There are a number of issues or perceived issues which customers encounter with the original MEK-based inks. The use of MEK has its share of concerns, based upon the smell and perception that it is a harmful material. Indeed, for this reason inks have been formulated with alternative solvents such as ethanol and methanol, as well as previously discussed acetone, and a variety of acetates, such as ethyl acetate. Some of these solvents have unpleasant odour, some more pleasant smell some have a lower toxicity level. That said, methanol is commonly used as a low odor replacement, but could probably be considered a more toxic ingredient Another component which is often replaced is the Solvent Black 29 dye, this dye does contain chromium as the counter ion and the toxicity concerns of having free Chromium 6 ions in an ink can be an issue for some applications or customers. Dyes with alternative counter ions or pigments have been chosen to replace this material. These requirements are often found in the food processing or pharmaceutical application areas, although they can occur with any customer. 

As discussed in Chapter 7, metrics should be tailored for the intended or required improvements. The metrics communication plan should be designed to deliver appropriate information to intended audiences so they can make good decisions. This chapter discusses the needs and techniques for communicating process safety results across the organization. Topics include selecting the appropriate metrics to share and techniques for establishing the communications strategy. 

Within this book, the quotes and extracts have been taken from real life from the author s conversations with managers, operatives and foremen about safety, from safety documentation that forms safety management systems, and from the safety signage used on sites. Examples within this text are representative of those used in the wider research that underpins this book, and they are shared here to illustrate some of the common ways in which safety is constructed on sites, as well as providing a good starting point for discussions and explorations of not only what safety is but also how it works on construction sites. 

The segregated entity of safety has no place within practice, and for this operative it even has the power to stop production. Safety has become the practice of just safety itself, and is firmly and clearly positioned as a hindrance to his work. The workforce is on site to work - and to work efficiently - not to work under the restrictions that safety can place on construction tasks, be they work methods designed to reduce risks, PPE to protect, or planning measures that require preparation in the form of records, discussions and signatures. This reveals one of the fundamental shared understandings of the construction industry itself, as suggested by the considerations of the site context made in Chapter 2, that of the fundamental truths of construction site context is quite simply that production is king. 

Another control variable measures the extent of information sharing that the firm engages in with workers concerning company finances, human resource plarming, and workplace safety. Again, for reasons discussed in this section, we anticipate that as information sharing by the firm increases, safety will increase. 

Shared values begin with shared understanding of process safety. Both the operating and contracting company should be well-versed in process safety. This should be discussed in detail during the interview when a contractual arrangement is contemplated. In the interview process both should present ... 

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