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Which is more important, safety measures or safety awareness?

2009-02-03View Original

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I read an article on how to better and more effectively cultivate people's safety awareness, improve people's safety awareness, and better ensure safety. Some people say that safety measures are more important! Only with precise safety protection measures can safety be guaranteed! But improving people's safety awareness can solve many hidden dangers and avoid accidents! Which is more important, protective measures or safety awareness? Everyone can express their opinions and discuss! square: Improving safety awareness is more important than improving safety measures. Counterparty: Improving safety measures is more important than raising safety awareness
Reply #22009-02-03
Safety awareness affects all employees, from senior leaders to ordinary employees, so I personally think safety awareness is important. According to relevant statistics, 80% of accidents are related to human unsafe factors. Improving the safety awareness of all employees can reduce human unsafe factors and thus reduce safety accidents. On the other hand, only by improving the safety awareness of managers at all levels can safety investment be increased. Who has ever seen a leader who doesn’t pay attention to safety invest a lot of money in safety? If the leader’s safety awareness is improved, safety investment is in place, and safety measures are in place.
Reply #32009-02-03
Agree with the positive point of view. As mentioned in the text: “According to relevant statistics, 80% of accidents are related to human unsafe factors..." People are the most active factor in productivity and play a decisive role. The early chemical production safety measures were definitely not as good as today, and they relied entirely on people. Therefore, improving people's safety awareness is still a major issue. The continuous advancement of security measures has provided people with more and more comprehensive means.
Reply #42009-02-03
Security awareness is software, security measures are hardware, both are important.
Reply #52009-02-03
Extract part of Dupont theory: 96% of accidents are caused by unsafe behaviors of people ; “ * "Habitual violation" is an unsafe behavior ; The root causes of serious accidents and accidents are the same ; We only pay attention to 4% of the unsafe factors of the main inspection objects in our daily inspections. This is why safety accidents sometimes become more frequent. This post was last published by * Edited by e214698 on 2009-2-3 14:37 ]
Reply #62009-02-03
Both are important. Only with awareness can we have measures. Awareness is the foundation and measures are the guarantee.
Reply #72009-02-03
Why do we have to explain which one is more important? If there are targeted safety measures and efforts are made to improve the safety awareness of all employees through training and education, then there is no need to worry about the stable and safe production of the equipment! I think that improving safety measures and raising the safety awareness of all employees are part of our daily work. Only by integrating each other can we take safety work to a higher level.
Reply #82009-02-03
If you don’t talk, you won’t laugh, you won’t be lively. How can you tell the truth without a counter-argument? ! Refutations are welcome, arguments are welcome, and we will continue to debate the opposing views.: Improving safety measures is more important than improving safety awareness. According to relevant statistics, 80% of accidents are related to human unsafe factors. Improving the safety awareness of all employees can reduce human unsafe factors and thus reduce safety accidents. ; This is indeed the case, but there is also data showing that accidents occurring during abnormal operations, such as maintenance, start-up and shutdown, are as high as 80%. The same people's safety awareness will have different results in different safety environments? This is actually a choice between legal rule and human rule! When choosing a legal system, you must start with safety measures. For example, based on the intrinsic safety design concept, select intrinsically safe instruments and equipment, and automatically handle accidents through a chain system to reduce the possibility of accidents. One of the design concepts of foreigners is to try to avoid equipment accidents caused by operating errors! ! Raising safety awareness is important, but safety measures are to keep up with and eliminate safety hazards. Management measures are also safety measures. With increased assessment and management, the safety awareness of participants will increase accordingly. Instinct says that if someone with high safety awareness does something, it will be safe, but if it is done by someone with poor safety awareness, an accident will happen, and he will be unlucky! Every step must be taken to prevent accidents from happening. This post was last edited by Xiaoxiaojianghu on 2009-2-3 16:45 ]
Reply #92009-02-03
Safety awareness mainly prevents accidents from the human aspect, and safety measures mainly prevent accidents from the material aspect. According to DuPont's theory, the human factor is the main factor, so I support the positive view!
Reply #102009-02-03
Security awareness is more important than security measures. Although I think both are important, security awareness is a more essential thing. Only when security awareness is improved can security measures be better implemented. If safety measures can ensure the safety of a certain process or link, then if safety awareness is improved, of course the improvement of safety awareness here must be an overall improvement, it will ensure the safety of the entire system. Safety measures are a method that must be adopted when the overall safety awareness is not high.
Reply #112009-02-03
Support the square: Raising security awareness is more important than improving security measures. Only by continuously improving safety awareness can we continuously improve and improve safety facilities.
Reply #122009-02-04
Safety awareness and safety measures are equally important. They are two different aspects, subjective and objective. It cannot be said which one is more important and which one is not.
Reply #132009-02-04
I used to say that I’m not afraid of doing it, I’m just afraid of not being able to think of it. Measures are also thought up by people and implemented only after they are feasible through experiments. Now, thinking determines the way out. If safety measures cannot be achieved and safety awareness is strong, then just stop production. Therefore, safety awareness is the most important in safe production.
Reply #142009-02-04
Personally, I think safety awareness is more important than safety measures. Because looking back from ancient times to the present, we could not have the current technology and measures to ensure our safe production, and we still relied on our people to control it. Even though technology is advanced now, we still rely on people, because no matter how advanced our technology is, there will be times when it fails, and then we have to rely on human power to complete it! What do you think? So I think that as long as people’s safety awareness is raised, I think the probability of accidents will definitely increase. * * It has been reduced. Many current accident statistics show that human factors account for the majority of accidents!
Reply #152009-02-04
Personally, I think safety awareness and safety measures are very important! However, safety awareness should come first! It should be said that safety awareness mainly refers to the human aspect, and safety measures refer to the action aspect. If people don’t have enough safety awareness, how can safety measures be put in place? Only when safety awareness rises to a certain stage will it inevitably lead to the improvement of safety measures. At the same time, I also want to explain that: Human beings are the main body in transforming nature.
Reply #162009-02-04
I think these two aspects are like two links in a domino. If there is a problem in any link, an accident may occur.
Reply #172009-02-04
Both are very important, and they are complementary to each other. As mentioned on the first floor, if there is safety awareness, there will be safety measures! But there must be one important word! Personally, I think safety awareness is more important. If safety measures are not in place or perfect enough, good safety awareness can better ensure safety!
Reply #182009-02-05
Safety measures are equally important as safety awareness. Safety measures are fundamental and safety awareness is guarantee.
Reply #192009-02-05
But safety awareness still needs to be acquired first. If there is no awareness, how can we take correct measures?
Reply #202009-02-05
According to the statistics of accident causes, human factors account for the majority. In this regard, safety awareness is indeed a decisive factor. As for the gap between the safety management of our domestic enterprises and foreign companies, a large aspect lies in the lack of safety awareness. Of course, the importance of safety awareness is based on safety technology and safety equipment, which are complementary and indispensable.
Reply #212014-03-01
According to the viewpoint of dialectical materialism, the two are complementary to each other, and neither one can exist independently. According to the original poster, I personally feel that safety awareness is more important, because the establishment of safety measures is based on safety awareness.

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