15. • When we closely watch the kind of incidents and when we review the Root Causes, we
understand, many instances involved significant human-errors and many more involved
ineffective supervision/Leadership
• One of the common findings in the day to day business is, individual’s do not care for their
personal safety
• Also people generally tend not to share any bad-news with the senior management.
• In our business, we talk about Safety Statistics and do probability studies and believe the
time gap between two hazards/incidents is 10 years or 100 years, etc.
• We generally do not consider double jeopardy scenario as a credible event
• Incidents/accidents in the Recent past, if we analyze, we would realize theoretical statistics
have been absolutely wrong and the frequency/fact of such hazards is much more, nearly 20
major incidents in the last 20 years is a real horror for the industry
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16. Many reasons for the scenarios……
• No Stringent Legislations in place?
• Has never happened in the last many years attitude, so why bother
• No tangible benefits by investing in safety
Real excuses are……
• Lack of Real Commitment to embrace HSSE
• Companies Continue to Lack Safety Principles
• No strong deterrent in place
• Economic Pressures compromising Safety
• Ineffective follow up on Safety findings
• Lack of Training & Lessons still to be Learnt
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17. Forcing Business Challenges……
• Industrial Revolution & Changing Technologies
• Challenging Process Hazards
• Integrity & Reliability of Plant / Equipment
• Significant Plant Expansions
• Optimization of Resources & Higher Production Rates
• Tough Competition
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HSSE Key Points
• Leadership & Accountability
• Risk Management
• Performance Improvement Planning
• Competency, Training and Behaviour
• Facilities Design and Construction
• Operation and Maintenance
• Contract Services and Supplier Management
• Crisis and Emergency Management
• Management Of Change
• Performance Measurement and Monitoring
• Incident Reporting and Investigation and Analysis
• Governance and Assurance
• Management Review
• Lessons Learnt
19. Safety Mo(ve)ment
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Safety Leadership:
• Starts with us – Together we can be safer.
•“Good Leaders - Lead by Examples”
• We need to have Safety Club/forums driven for its true value
Leadership – to ensure:
• Proper Training on the job
• Risk Management
• Account of Human Element
• Learning Lessons and Communicating the same affectively
• Turning Aspirations into Reality
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Change Thinking ……
• Investment in safety should be treated as an opportunity cost
• The cost of an accident is always greater than the cost of preventing it
The Message
• The Lessons from Bhopal must not be forgotten
• The latest is “Uttarakhand” shall never repeat
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