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Forget Impossible: Fix
The article examines the problem of reduced control in production, where the habit of working with minor deviations and clutter gradually leads to accidents. The material presents a step-by-step approach to enhancing safety: from daily five-minute workplace inspections and isolating faults into "quarantine" to drawing up checklists and key rules. These simple, regular actions help identify weak spots and fix accumulated shortcomings in a timely manner.
A Rational Approach: Principles and Rules for the Crew
The article explains how to protect a crew from recurring errors and unproductive loss of time in the workplace using key rules and small regular steps. The author explains how to independently create simple checklists, allocate fixed time for safety matters, and agree with the team on rules for performing operations. Such an approach helps to realize the necessary changes, eliminate risks in advance, and maintain order in the workplace.
Safe STARRT
The article examines the STARRT procedure—a tool for conducting briefings and safety analysis at the company's construction sites. Discussion of tasks and team risk assessment before starting work help identify hazards and determine safe work practices. The procedure ensures an understanding of all precautions and increases employee engagement in occupational health and safety issues.
Induction Video Course for Drivers
The article describes the creation of a 12-minute orientation video course for drivers starting work at the Irkutsk Polymer Plant. The training video clearly demonstrates local road safety rules and the consequences of non-compliance, helping drivers without experience at the enterprise avoid dangerous situations. The video material was prepared by an employee without involving an external filming studio, which saved the company's budget, and is now actively used in safety briefings, on information screens, and in mailings to contractors.
The "Carrot and Stick" Approach to Managing Drivers
An effective road safety system at an enterprise requires comprehensive work with drivers of contractor organizations who often start work without knowledge of local rules. The article examines how, instead of relying exclusively on penalties, adaptation courses, defensive driving training, and regular meetings for dialogue with drivers can be used. Such an approach helps drivers realize their key role in ensuring safety and allows reducing the number of violations at the facility.
Risk-Based Thinking in Industrial Safety and HSE
Risk-oriented thinking in industrial safety and occupational health and safety consists of the ability to analyze potential hazards of operational activities and manage their consequences. This approach goes beyond simple compliance with standards and helps prevent accidents, injuries, and environmental damage, while simultaneously increasing the operational efficiency of the enterprise. The material examines ways to integrate risk management into all enterprise processes and the implementation of a system for their proactive analysis.
Avoid Getting Blown Up by the Mental Mines of Cognitive Biases
The article proposes using Checklist No. 2 with questions about cognitive biases to prevent unplanned losses and minimize decision-making errors. The author analyzes typical mental "mines" that cause people and managers to underestimate or ignore risks. The material shows the insidiousness of these misconceptions through examples and invites readers to discuss the most dangerous thinking traps.
Key Safety Rules
The article describes SIBUR's approach to the application of key safety rules, deviation from which can lead to the most serious incidents. Readers will learn how these rules are brought to the attention of employees, contractors, and visitors, as well as what sanctions are applied under zero tolerance for violations. In addition, the material explains how internal investigation of violations helps identify their causes and prevent precursors to incidents.
"Don't Fall into the 'Pitfall'!" Methodology
The article presents a methodology for assessing the relative probability of committing dangerous acts and erroneous decisions, "Don't Fall into the 'Pitfall!'", developed to block personnel errors and violations. The author identifies four types of risk factors — from situational-personal to organizational — and offers a checklist for employee self-checking. The publication contains a step-by-step algorithm and recommendations for completing mini-trainings to prevent unplanned losses due to the human factor.
Language Barriers
When implementing large construction projects, companies often engage contractor organizations that do not always speak the same language as the client's workers. When an online translator is unavailable or does not allow specific technical requirements to be quickly conveyed during occupational safety control, a developed collection of short phrases is used. It is compiled from the most frequently used words when interacting with contractors and can be edited to suit the specific features of a particular site.
Safety Contact!
The "Safety Contact" practice helps engage meeting participants in discussing safety issues from the very first minutes through a short story about an event with negative consequences and recommendations for its prevention. At the beginning of the meeting, the organizer or participants share a relevant topic lasting no more than five minutes, concluding it with a discussion of risk reduction measures. Holding such contacts regularly at meetings allows people to reflect on occupational health and safety and on what else can be improved in the workplace.
Safety Memo
Safety memos are developed for new employees, contractors, and visitors so that they can know and understand the features of the facility. Posting notices with a QR code allows downloading the document to a mobile device and reduces the amount of printed materials. Having a memo helps reduce the likelihood that a worker will forget or miss something during the introductory briefing.