Quality in Safety

Last night, I watched National Geographic documentary... about Tokyo Fire Brigade team... what make me impressed about the team is "the quality" shown by the Fire Brigade team... really2x interesting...

of course, one of the interesting info about the team is the tools used during emergency... hi-tech devices such as heart-beat detector, terminator, impulse gun, rainbow robot etc... BUT, the one that really caught my attention is the application of "quality concept" in the ERP training program... example are as below

1. Training program - was established based on the past experience when dealing with the emergency situation or disaster.. e.g earthquake, terrorist attacked, HAZMAT accidents...

2. Clear Objective - to save people without injuring/endanger yourself....

the most interesting part is.....
3. Set a standards for each emergency response. This is shown from the standard operating procedure (SOP) based on the most efficient & effective + safe to save people. At the same time, established a benchmark in term of time to save people life and response to any scenario... this can ONLY be done by training, training, training, training to sharpen the skill...

Safety and Health is commonsense (II)?

I had an accident inside my own house.... hemmm, work as SHO, but still you are not "immortal or immune" from any accident!! Why, because we just a human... what was happened, I slipped at the front of my toilet... slippery floor... really a good experience & alhamdulillah there was no major injuries :)

so, what other safety issues that most of us don't realized in our daily life? here are some of them, categorized based on hazards
Physical - sharp edges, slippery floor, staircase/steps, hot water, heat from iron/water heater/stove

Chemical - clorox, medication (pill, medical syrup etc), insect repellent (Redsect, Sheildtox)

Electical - all the electrical appliances...

We heard few accidents happen at home, but most of us ignored it because we don't realized the risk (or don't care about it unless it happen to us).... below are some accidents happen in Malaysia, & I really2 hope we can learn from it... "Learning is a continual process....."

A kid was hit by a fallen tv when he climbed the tv rack

A boy fell into a boiling curry cauldron

Safety on the road

Raya Aidil Fitri, I think the busiest & crowded highways were during this period (of course sometime during CNY too...)... just came back from Raya in Kuala Lumpur yesterday... I was lucky, the traffic from KL to Northern is OK... nice weather too yesterday... Bad traffic jam at few routes along PLUS from Northern Part to KL... few km jam, some that I can recalled are at Slim River, Sg. Perak, & Bukit Gantang

I observed few "bad habits" of Malaysian's driver... quite sad, can't understand the mentality of Malaysian's driver (some of them, not all of them, of course).... maybe they are "lack of knowledge" about safety, negligence, ignorance or worst case is stupid or crazy... maybe they think the highway is belong to them... they know more about the highway.... they need to rush... they using expensive car (well, human attitude "ego"). Some of the bad habits that I experienced yesterday are as below
1. Overtake like there is no tomorrow - 1 toyota camry, silver in colour, overtake my car (I think most of the cars...) from left side on the emergency lane at speed more than 140km/hr!!! "Nak mampus kali"

2. After overtake - "enter to slow lane" after overtaking a car like nobody is behind you.... no signal is given, minimal space btwn the cars.... ayoyo.... where's the driving skill??

3. Tailing - most of the Malaysian's driver think that their car's brake syst can stop the car immediately from 150km/hr to 0 km/hr... the distance between the front car & your car is <1 style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">4. The driver holding her baby while driving on the highway!!! Hemmm, teaching the baby to become Schemancher in the future, maybe.... wrong place dude....

So, what's the accident rate during Hari Raya for this year??? We will see the statistics next week...