January 18, 2025

Nature of concept of Safety

►It has been developed as a basic need of human protection.

►Concept includes various methods hazard detection , inspection, analysis, assessment and application of safety measures.

►The concept of industrial safety began as accident prevention, widened as Occupational health and hygiene and has reached up to the level of Environmental protection.

►Thus industrial safety includes three things;

1.Accident Prevention

2.Occupational Health

3.Environmental Protection

►Industrial safety thus can be defined to mean ‘Protection of environment from hazards of an industrial activity’

►‘Environment’ includes workers, public, plant, property, land etc.

►‘Industrial activity’ includes storage, process , transport, transfer, use, handling etc.

►Concept of safety is a psychological because it studies human behavior in much detail as a root cause of accident.

►It keeps human as Centre for protection from hazards.

The concept of HSE or SHE

►Main function of HSE is to plan, execute and coordinate specific function of safety manager, factory medical officer or environmental engineer.

►Function of safety officer is as per GSO Duties, qualifications and conditions of service Rule, 1983

►Function of medical officer as per GFR rule 68 R,T & U.

►Function of environment manager as per environmental laws, guidelines issued by MoEF, GPCB (Guajrat Pollution Control Board), CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board).

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