Introduction
The comprehensive safety program play a crucial role to managing effective health safety and environment at workplace. This program basically design and develop to identify the involve associated risk with the workplace activities. It's a proactive approach of any organization to maintain an accident free environment. A clear and risk assessment will assist any organisation to implement best safe practices and implement all mandatory regulatory requirements. Apart from that it will support dealing safely with all hazardous activities such as operation of dangerous tools and equipment, Handling and using of hazardous substances and safely navigate the workplace protocol. A comprehensive safety program defines the policies and procedure, responses to potential emergencies, procedure for handling chemical spill, work instructions, method of statement, various training program and several safety equipment.
The training and leading by example is a key component of any safety program. Because this is way where new employee will impressed and adopt new practice and techniques. Effective training delivery world class skill set theoretical and practical knowledge about their scope of work. These trainings will understand the new workers how to react and respond in real life situation safely.
However, still Minor risk is still associated with task. For the controlling this risk personal protective equipment is crucial. All organisation must provide suitable and sufficient personal protective equipment accordingly to involved risk.
Finally a cultivating a positive culture of health and safety within the organisation that require top management support and their initiatives to reinforce the importance of safety within their employee. The organisation should prioritize safety factor while making decision or selecting the process or equipment or material. Basically safety program and design based on the regular requirement and human rights where all organisation need comply with minimum requirement.
Objective
The primary objective of the safety program is built proactive approach towards achieving zero incident within the organisation and minimising the maximum risk. Generally a comprehensive safety program establish by implementing safety policy which show the top management commitment and work procedures where organisation trying to address initially workplace issues or high risk activities which has potential to harm people equipment or affect the business. The safety program enables several opportunities for the employee growth and professionalism towards their competency through the tool box talk, safety meeting, job specific training refresh your training etc.
The major objective of the safety program is to promote the best safety standard and positive culture, addition that creating transparency and accountability among the employees stakeholders.
The proactive approach is a road map for the preventing workplace accident and incident.
Understanding the hazardous process associated with the task
Usually hazardous process involved with the chemical work activity, operating heavy machinery or equipment working on energized equipment, under the heat stress and many more tasks that could affect the employee personal stability. Hazardous process or Operation have highest probability and severity with associated risk of each work.
The common branches of effective safety program.
Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA):
its a tool the being use to control workplace hazards and risk. The risk assessment need to carried out according to systematic manner with all applicable requirement to eliminate the hazards and risk as far as reasonably practicable. when its not practicable to eliminate the risk then it should be controlled or reduce the risk by substitution, engineering control, administrative and last but not a least is PPE personal protective equipment.
All risk assessment must be suitable and sufficient according to the scope of work. aprt from the every risk assessment must be review and update at certain period of time or certain circumstances such as statutory changes, company adopt new process, or any incident etc.
Safety policies and procedures
Generally, safety policies and procedure sets out practicable way to control the hazardous environment to prevent any workplace accident or minimise the risk. by establishing the written policies and procedure, will help to employees understand and adhere to the industries best practices. although, its create foundation of organisation to promoting positive safety culture where organisation putting the safety is top priority during their operation and decision making process.
Training and Education program
First of all, comprehensive safety training and education program vitally important aspects of the safety program where all employees get the basic understanding of the safety protocol and mandatory guidelines. this safety training and education program must be start will workplace safety induction or safety orientation which will help to new joiners to get familiar with all workplace layout, policies procedure, emergency protocols, and workplace existing hazards, but not limited to this. Addition to that frequently or annually refresher training will enable employees to be stay updated with the lasted workplace health and safety protocols or any organisational changes to enhance their knowledge and skills.
Job specific training or Hands on training plays crucial role to manage workplace effectively during real life situations such as emergency responses equipment failure spills of chemicals etc. job specific training is a road map to ensure that each employee fully equipped with essential knowledge and practicable guidance according to nature of hazards and risk, moreover it's empires employees to give their contribution to maintain and sustain positive safe and healthy work in environment.
Personal protective equipment
It is last line of defence, it's usually supporting and protecting worker to get exposed from the hazards and risk. The personal protective equipment must be suitable for the nature of hazards or it's define by the risk assessment. PPE selection is a vital aspect to ensuring that correct and suitable type of PPE is provided the affected workers. All employees must be familiar with the use, care, maintenance and limitation of the personal protective equipment. However regular checks and inspection need to perform for each person protect equipment to ensure its effectiveness and the quality. In addition to that all damage faulty equipments must be destroyed a remove from the service and employee should report and replace their damage PPE.
Conclusion
A Comprehensive safety program is a ladder of maintaining effective health and safety standards within the organisation. By identifying associated risk and implementing correct safety protocols, providing necessary and jobs specific trainings, allocating necessary health and safety resources can reduce likelihood and probability of the accident.
Backbone of the safety program is safety policies which shows the top management commitment, safety procedure and work instructions which determine the right way to carried out the task, method of statement and risk assessment will also assist to proactively to recognize the associated hazards. Safety training also play a crucial role in making employees understand the how to act and respond during work. its emphasizing management commitment and actively involvement for implementing robust safety program and safe practices.