Integrated Safety Systems

Look into providing your people with proper safety training and responsibility. You only slightly improve productivity through integrated safety systems, but this is hard to prove to the bosses. These are to protect the employees and secondary, your machines.

However!! If your people are well trained and you reduce accidents or injuries, your people will be there to actually do the job. This is where you show your productivity. If an employee is injured and off the job, others must now take up the slack. Loss of production now occurs. Hiring and training someone new is not cost effective to temporarily fill an injured employees position.

Safety systems will help to keep people safe and that is your bottom line. The more you can do to keep them healthy and safe, the better. It's the loss of production from injuries that you can use to prove how well a good safety program can help your company.

I have worked for major companies for the past 25 years. One thing I have learned is that there are no Excuses or Substitute for Safety and Quality. Maybe not 100% but close. I am not a perfectionist but Directives and Regulation and Guidelines are my STAPLE!

Ditto !

Thank You!

Agreed 100%

Dear CSM Engineer,

Thank you for your response to my question, you were quite helpful.

Anymore details would be greatly appreciated when you have some more time.

Thanks

Let's try to put this in some context...

Do you have a specific project in mind or do you want more on safety control system theory? Feel free to send me a PM if you would rather.

What are your improved project?

Your question is too large to answer, but I can say that you can do that if you have enough ideas-time-money.

Good luck.

I am fortunate enough to work for a company that puts the highest priority on employee safety and training. In fact, I'm a member of the Corp. Safety Committee and our corporate culture is such that employees are encouraged to report any and all potential safety issues (we're not blowing smoke up their asses...we really mean it and the employees know it). We don't penalize employees for accidentally creating a hazardous situation. We all make mistakes and we try to learn from them and prevent it from happening again.

We are a Fab making nano tech products and MEMS so we use some seriously nasty gases and chemicals including pyrophorics, 14 kW HV supplies for e-guns, and numerous tools running on 480V and 208V 3 phase power.

In spite of the inherent hazards in our workplace we haven't had a serious work related injury in over 7 years of operation. That's a direct result of the seriousness with which we take our safety and training programs. Has this increased our plant productivity? ABSOLUTELY!

While discussing on Safety and its benefits, we should inculcate the safety right from Home, imagine if the work person stays unsafe in home, that may affect attendance in work place. Road safety, climatic safety, Safe fooding and so on all affects in work finally. I mean 'safety in totality'. That should be the concept and philosophy while we talk over safety.