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There Are No Accidents
Accidents just happen, right? The term accident seems to attribute injury to random chance or some unpredictable factor.
But nost injuries can be prevented if people plan, avoid risky behaviors and follow safety advice.
In 2003, unintentional injuries caused nearly 1 million deaths.
Safety experts now use this term instead of accidents because these injures usually involve preventable factors such as:
Preoccupation: If you are stressed or distracted, chances are your mind is not on the task at hand.
Fatigue: Sleepiness interferes with daily activities; drowsiness impairs judgment and reaction time. An estimated 100,000
reported crashes result from driver fatigue annually.
Alcohol Use: In 2003 alcohol was involved in 41% of all traffic fatalities and countless injuries and deaths from violence
and falls each year.
Poor Housekeeping: Spills not cleaned up promptly, files drawers left open, and electrical cords and other objects on floors
lead to slips, trips and falls.
Risk Taking: Sometimes we don’t wear seat belts or hard hats, thinking, it can’t hurt this one time. It can
and it does.
Lack Of Enforcement
Is The Key Cause of Failure to Use PPE
Personal protective equipment plays a key role in helping your people stay safe on the job. That's a given.
But safety gear only works if people use itand all too often they don't.
Why don't workers wear personal protective equipment (PPE) if they know it's required and that it is to their
benefit to do so? According to a survey commissioned by the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), the main reason
is that their employers do not require or enforce its use.
As a supervisor, you need to communicate the need and benefit of PPE to your workersover and over again, if necessary. You also need to be prepared to enforce PPE use. Failure
to do so sends a message that PPE use isn't really that important, and that's not a message you can afford to send.
It's important for you to be consistent in enforcing the proper use of PPEby imposing progressive discipline
when warranted and by rewarding correct use. When properly applied, discipline and rewards are two tools at your disposal
for ensuring the proper use of PPE in your crew.
Remember that the purpose of discipline should be to correct behavior, not to punish. Employees should
know that every time they don't follow rules for the correct use of PPE, they will be disciplined, but that the reason is
that you care about them and don't want them to get injured.
It's all too easy for supervisors to say nothing to their crew who use PPE correctly, because it is the behavior
that is expected. But recognizing positive safety methods leads to better and even safer job performance. Positive reinforcement
doesn't have to be expensive. It can range from compliments to small tokens of appreciation that let your crew know you care.
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¿ Los accidentes suceden apenas, el derecho? El accidente del término parece atribuir
la herida a la oportunidad aleatoria o algún factor imprevisible. Pero las heridas de nost se pueden prevenir si personas
planean, evitan las conductas arriesgadas y siguen la seguridad el consejo.
En 2003, las heridas involuntarias causaron casi
1 millón Muertes.
Los expertos de la seguridad ahora utilizan este término en vez de los accidentes porque
éstos hieren implica generalmente los factores evitables tales como:
Preocupación: Si usted es enfatizado o es distraído, las oportunidades son su mente no está en la tarea en mano.
La fatiga: Somnolencia interviene con actividades diarias; somnolencia daña tiempo de juicio y reacción. Un estimó 100.000
choques informados resultan de la fatiga de conductor anualmente.
El Uso del alcohol: En 2003 alcohol fue implicado en 41% de todos muertos del tráfico y heridas y muertes innumerables
de la violencia y cae cada año.
El Gobierno de la casa pobre: Rocia no limpió inmediatamente, archiva cajones abren a la izquierda, y cuerdas eléctricas
y otros objetos en pisos llevan a tropiezos, los viajes y las caídas.
Arriesgue Tomando: A Veces nosotros no llevamos cinturones de seguridad ni sombreros duros, pensar, no puede doler éste
tiempo. Puede y hace.
H itching a ride is a dangerous practice. A backhoe operator giving a co-worker
a ride on the side of the machine is an unsafe practice, which could result in the passengers death if they hit a bump in
the road. Workers riding in the back of a pick-up truck is unsafe. Workers may think hitching a ride on truck beds or one-person
machinery saves time in getting from point A to point B, but any time saved is lost when the crew has to stop for an accident.
The rider faces the possibility of head injury and getting run over by the machine hes on. A good rule of thumb to remember
when riding on a piece of equipment is to always wear your seatbelt. If you dont have a seatbelt, or a seat, you should not
be on the machine while it is operating.
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