Task 3 Oct 2020 Final Exam Solution Nebosh OBE

 

Task 3: Influencing health and safety culture

Question 3 Based on the scenario only, what are the indicators of health and safety culture in the organization?                                                                                                                 (Marks-20)

 

SUMMARIZING THE SCENARIO ​

·          World class safety culture​

·          Setting and attaining objectives  PDCA ​

·          Organisation is legally complied and fulfill necessary legal requirements​

·          Company safety standards are used by other industries in similar business as bench-marking ​

·          Hiring of Motivated workers​

·          Absenteeism and sickness rate is low, less staff turn over ​

·          Effective communication and issues and concerns are taken care, instant resolution​

·          Low incidents and accidents rates, Near misses are investigated as prevention avoid huge losses, incidents and accidents​

·          Company is fully insured even though the premium are high​

·          Organization conducts Internal and External Audits which helps in continuous improvement in performance. ​

·          Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined from top management to worker (Responsibilities are fulfilled)​

·          Management positive attitude and activeness ​

·          SSOW ​

·          Active monitoring ​

·          RA ​

·          Team work / Methodology etc.

 

ANSWER:

Determining health and safety indicators are essential to define the safety culture in the company. ​

Organizations health and safety culture can be assessed by the means of health safety indicators. The company is having amazing health and safety culture that means HSE indicators in organization are highly positive. Several HSE positive indicators of the organisation are enlisted below:​

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Management strongly believes in setting objectives and attaining them that specifies PDCA cycle implementation is present in the Organisation. In order to avoid any strict enforcement from the National Legislation bodies company has taken care of all the legal compliance required by the chemical manufacturing business.  The safety standards are high and has set trend nationally which is used as bench-marking for the other industries in similar business. The hiring process in the organization is also up to mark as they deploy highly motivated and competent workers. Due to the excellent safety culture the sickness and absenteeism rate is deliberately low this results in less staff turnover and high productivity.​

Effective communication leads the company to resolves the concerns from the worker and clients complaints this also leads to the customer satisfaction. That means consultation is in place in the organisation.  ​

Less incident/accidents rates indicates the active monitoring system is implemented and in conformance to the set standards. In order to take precautions for the foreseen risks near misses are also investigated without fail. ​

Irrespective of high premium cost management has fully insured the organisation to recompense the direct cost losses occurrence during accident to the maximum.

 

Internal and External Audits are conducted in the organisation as per the necessity this leads the continuous improvement in performance of the company.  Role and responsibilities are clearly defined from top management to the worker so the organization work as a team in order to achieve the set objective and the ownership is shown by individual employees in their role assigned.​

Team work example and fulfillment of roles and responsibilities is seen while trouble shooting the technical blockage problem in tank which made collectively big issue small.​

Corporate management positive attitude and active participation in the issue shows their high commitment to HSE which is the key to success in the organization. ​

It clearly justifies from the scenario that company have good safe system of work this is a reasonable national health and safety requirement; this also abides the set of rules and instruction to performing the work activity safely. That means the training associated with SSOW is also properly recorded and maintained under supervision. ​

General Health and safety arrangement in the organisation is in proper place as the risk assessment carrying out is suitable and sufficient. ​

The proper communication channel is followed and the authority of the employees are clearly stated and well aware by the complete team in organization.​

Consultation in the organization is also introduced throughout in the organization since there were several meetings conducted by the authorized person involving other delegates.​

Contractor management is also up to the mark as the summary of the risk assessment, control measures and plant design safely prepared was explained to all the workers. PTW and Method statement was imposed on the sub-contractors before commencing the work.

 

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