Safety During Fasting Month

Today, 17th day of fasting month.... quite fast I think.... but the interesting part about Ramadhan that is related to Safety is "mercun" or fire crackers...

This is unique case in Malaysia... since Malaysia is a multi cultural country, we celebrated different type of festival... Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Gawai & of course the biggest festival is Hari Raya... BUT, why there is always an accident related to fire crackers in Ramadan + Raya only??? This is sad, very sad... this accident always happen during this time.... happened in Malay community.... co-incidence?? "tepuk dada tanya selera"...


I believe & I think that Malay is creative & innovative when modifying "mercun"... maybe want to have a really "booom" effects, the kids (or maybe including the adults) need to modify the "mercun" little bit without thinking the risk that they will face.... come on, can't we see that we are dealing with explosive HAZMAT??...... hemmm, "orang utara cakap, habaq pun tak guna nooo..." Parents, please ensure the Safety is a priority in our daily life.... "raya, raya gak tapi bila berlaku accident, tak syok la raya...."

OSH Responsibilities & Accountabilities

As a human, we can't away from "responsibilities & accountabilities".... as a person, as a child to your parent, as parent to your children, as an employee to your employer etc... BUT most of us ignore these 2 words.... simple definition of the words
Responsibilities - ability to "response" ... tanggungjawab
Accountabilities - ability to "account" on what you did ... keterbertanggungjawaban, I think :)

These 2 words are very important in OSH management... but people always ignore it... why??? I believe this is one of the failure of OSH Management....

I think the answer was given by my friend, Hj Zahruddin on a story of Lukman Nul Hakim make a sense why people ignore about Safety (in general of course....)

"Mungkin kisah LUKMAN NUL HAKIM boleh menjawab semua persoalan ini
Pada satu masa Lukman Nur Hakim berjalan bersama annaknya dgn seekor keldai.
Sebab kasihnya anak pada ayahnya, sianak telah menyuruh siayah menaiki keldai tersebut.
Orang ramai berkata TENGOKLAH SI LUKMAN TU.....ANAK NYA YANG KECIL DISURUHNYA BERJALAN......DIA YANG KUAT SENANG LENANG BERJALAN MENAIKI KELDAI TU....
Maka turunlah si ayah dari keldai tu dan diganti DENGAN si anak pula.......
Orang ramai pula berkata…… APALAH ANAK SI LUKMAN TU…..DIA YANG MASIH MUDAH MENAIKI KELDAI DAN AYAHNYA YG SUDAH TUA PULAK DISURUH BERJALAN KAKI….
Maka sianakpun meminta siayah menaiki keldai tu bersama……..
Orang ramai pulak berkata TAK PATUT BETUL SI LUKMAN DGN ANKNYA TU…ADA KE KELDAI KECIL TU DIA NAIK BERDUA……TAK KESIAN SUNGGUH PADA KELDAI TU….
Maka sianak & siayah pun kedua2nya turun dari keldai tersebut dan berjalan bersama-sama tanpa menaiki keldai.
Orang ramai pulak berkata........APALAH SI LUKMAN & ANAKNYA TU......ADA KELDAI TAPI TAK DITUNGGANGNYA......BERJALAN KAKI PULAK MEREKA......

KESIMPULAN:-
Kalau kita bekerja kerana manusia...............sampai bila pun kita tidak akan dapat memuaskan hati semua orang......
Tetapi kalau kita BEKERJA kerana AMANAH & TANGGUNGJAWAB pasti kita yakin dan tahu apa yang kita buat................Pandangan orang lain diambil untuk memperbaiki kelemahan / kesilapan yang tidak dirancang...................."

Selling OSH

Selling OSH??? Hemmm, need to learn marketing theory so that we can really "sell our product" efficiently & effectively... any special recipe? normally not that easy, but if you have the skills, insya allah it can help.... how? learn from the salesman on how their selling their product or service.... common methodology in marketing is 4P approach... product, price, promotion, place... sometime we call this as Marketing Mix... you can add additional P if you want such as People, Process, Physical evidence etc...

But, for me, I like to sell safety from common sense approach... something that people can relate it in their daily life's activity... such as driving safety, house safety, on the road safety etc... use example a lot.... use newspaper cutting, photos (remember, photo tell more than 1000 words).... use simple or layman language... this will help to open their mind and touch their feeling or heart....

as example, see some of the photos ... I believed people can understand what we are talking about

Speeding more than 100miles/hr!!

At car workshop....

OSH Management

Sometime, most of SHO don't realize or aware how to integrate their work in the overall organization operation. Most of us focus on Safety without understanding the operation of the organization....

I believed, it's time for SHO to equipped ourselves with "multi-discipline" knowledge... of course, not that detailed or expert in that particular discipline BUT at least we know how OSH can be integrated/part of the organization's activities.... this is important because sometime we need to "talk" same language with other departments.... and the most common "term" when we discuss with top management, it still reflects "Profit and Loss" statement.... so, it's time for us to measure OSH in tangible and intangible parameter in order for us to sell OSH more efficiently... insya allah..

Construction's Safety

Hot topic was discussed in the NRG email network on the Scaffold collapsed at Ukay Perdana before COSH2008. The project is taken care by PMC that won 1st place in the CIDB/DOSH award... forget about the award... let we focus how we can solve this prob....

A good remark by my friend, Mr. Jass... and I quote it below
"Dalam scenario tapakbina ada kekalutan kekalutan yang berlaku yang secara tidak sengajanya menyebabkan SHO terperangkap oleh situasi. Kebanyakannya berasal dari kesilapan kesilapan pengurusan, yang sebenarnya telah di ketahui berpunca dari economic demand..."
This is the toughest game for SHO when you working with the employer where profit is the ultimate goal... well, it's common in Msia then... so, it's not easy for us as SHO (small and humble OFFICER)... my personal opinion, as SHO, we need to follow the game.... not to forget about your responsibilities BUT try your best to sell safety.... work with PM, PE, PMC, Client, Constractor, Subcon, "kuli", "apek" etc ... BUT I believed you can't get "real"support ... BUT, don't forget to work closely with "DOSH".... then I think it will help little....

I still believe, when dealing with this situation, Safety Management in Construction can really work when "the man" with the power can use it power properly.... they are: Client and Enforcement Body... why???
Client - the payer $$$
Enforcement body - fine $$$ (+ go to jail lah...)... it's all about money, again!!

SHO in Construction... "belasah jerlah" and yg paling penting, cari rezki yg halal

Communication

Sometime, when we want to communicate something to somebody, we will use a language. BUT, as we know language is one of the tools to communicate with somebody. Instead using a language to communicate, we can use body language, we can use signage, or signals .... like Red Indian.... If we realize, language can become a barrier if a person can't understand the language that we used.

I still believe, diagram/image/picture can become a good tool to communicate. Maybe, it's more effective... why?? Sometimes, it's easy to remember people's face than his name.... Sometimes, it's easy to explain/tell a story from a picture than describing it using words....

That's why, I still prefer to use diagram/picture + additional wording when I do my work.... it some sort like mind/idea mapping approach.... at least can exercise our left & right brain ...

Let's try to do it in OSH Management.... it already started actually, that's why there is an OSH topic called HAZCOM (Hazard Communication)... let the ball rolling