PLAN
Safety Tip #7 in the series
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◊ PREVENTION ◊ PURPOSE
◊ PREPARATION ◊ PEOPLE
◊ PROBLEMS ◊ PAT-ON-BACK
♦ PLAN ◊ PROGRESS
◊ PEN-TO-PAPER ◊ PRO-ACTIVE
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The purpose of this series is to give struggling-but-eager SHE professionals and practitioners, who are working for financially-constrained companies, pointers on how to get the safety awareness message across to both management and workers, on a shoestring budget.
Today’s topic, PLAN, is a reminder that “FAILING TO PLAN = PLANNING TO FAIL” and that “THINK SAFETY” means keeping safety at the forefront of everyone’s mind.
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Production people are thinking about producing / output.
Engineers are thinking about designing and fixing stuff.
Logistics people are thinking about delivering the right stuff on time.
That is their number 1 priority, and for them, Safety, Health & Environmental impact are at the bottom of their list.
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♦ SAFETY ♦
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♦ it is not rocket science, but a MINDSET
♦ it is keeping safety TOP-OF-MIND in all we do or use, from design to operation
♦ it is THINKING about the consequences of our actions
♦ it is not driving safety in a re-active manner – reacting to accidents and incidents
♦ it is about PRO-ACTIVE PLANNING for ONGOING safety improvements
♦ it is about a Plan on how to do it SAFER, BETTER, CHEAPER
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The best plans are those that are
drawn up and owned by the people who will implement the actions.
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Better to have a back-of-the-match-box or
written-on-a-serviette plan, which is
♦ alive and well
♦ being worked on and implemented
than to have the grand affair forced onto people from above
♦ ending up full of dust and out of date
♦ in the bottom drawer of a cabinet.
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♦ ACTION ♦
Always ask ♦ Where is YOUR Safety Improvement Plan?
Always ask ♦ Who OWNS it?
Always ask ♦ Can I SEE it?
“Uithaal en Wys” is what counts, not a lot of “yada-yada”
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If you want my doc on “HOW TO KEEP SAFETY TOP-OF-MIND”, you can request it here.
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© Copyright:Jürgen Tietz
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