All employees are safety experts at life

All employees are safety experts at life. Believe or not, it’s true. We do pre-start check, risk assessment and risk control actions every day, hundreds of times each day in our instinct. Before driving our private vehicles every morning to work, we do pre-start check naturally in seconds:

  • Wheel
  • Control panel
  • Gear position
  • Loose items in the cabin
  • Seat belt while buckling it.

On the road, we make choices (a risk assessment is it safe to do so?):

  • Overtake
  • Wait on red light
  • Check nearby vehicles on the road
  • Changing lane etc.…

Even your wife does risk assessment in the supermarket while shopping. For instance: Before buying milk:

  • Check expiry date
  • Package safety, any leak?
  • Brand awareness (Had we use it before? Was it safe for my children and husband?)
  • Instructions on the package…

If something wrong, she takes control action to refuse to buy this milk because it may poison her family.

Hazard identification, risk assessment and taking control actions are human instinct for living and ability which was given by God and developed through life experience. Safety instructions and toolbox meetings (not only once a day like we do) are provided to each individual every time since their childhood by parents such as “don’t put your finger in mouth, don’t jump on the bed, come early to home, I don’t like your friends…” I think the best safety officers in the world are mothers. That’s why you and me have grown safely, still alive and passing our safety experience to next generation (our children).

So, we have to use and develop employee’s naturally gifted ability to identify workplace hazards and get control actions. If they involve 100% to Company Safety Culture Harmonization, we can achieve our Target Zero (incident and injury) as early as possible.

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Ganjiguur Bukhbat

www.TheSafetyPoster.com