A Brief Discussion on the Management of Premonitory Incidents (Repost)

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bg8.png 1. Definition of hazardous incidents: These refer to work-related dangerous incidents that, although they do not result in any injuries, may under different circumstances lead to injuries, property damage, or environmental harm. They include unsafe human behaviors (also known as near-misses). II. Root causes of hazardous accidents: unsafe human behavior, unsafe conditions of equipment and facilities, limitations in the working environment, and management deficiencies. III. Classification of Hazardous Incidents 1. General hazardous incidents: (Refer to incidents whose potential consequences may result in minor or slight injuries). 2. High-risk accident: (Refers to accidents whose potential consequences may lead to serious injuries or worse, as well as property damage and environmental degradation). IV. Accident Background (Entities responsible for the accident: company employees, relevant party personnel) 1. Illegal instructions. 2. Unsafe human behavior: the *habitual violations by employees (including relevant parties) (violations of the rules regarding the use of personal protective equipment, and violations of safety procedures for their respective tasks). 3. Unsafe conditions of objects: defects in tools, equipment, and other facilities; inadequate or missing protective devices or warning signs for equipment; restricted working environments, etc. 4. Management deficiencies: Training and dissemination of the company’s safety management systems and relevant implementation rules were inadequate, and the safety management officers in the company and the departments responsible for operations failed to properly inspect and supervise the safe working practices of on-site staff. V. Preventive measures for potential accidents 1. Urge all departments (teams) within the company, as well as employees working at various positions, to identify risks associated with their tasks, develop preventive measures, and implement them in their work. 2. The company’s safety management personnel are involved in reviewing the qualifications of relevant personnel for carrying out operations (such as business licenses, work safety permits, organization code certificates, tax registration certificates, work permits for the personnel involved, as well as accident insurance for these relevant personnel – third-party liability insurance). 3. Provide safety training and education to relevant personnel (on-site safety training, training on the company’s safety management regulations, signing of safety agreements, job risk assessment, safety briefings, etc.). 4. Conduct compliance inspections on the relevant parties’ equipment and facilities, protective gear (personal protective equipment), and safety protection systems. 5. Security management personnel from the company and the departments in charge of operations should strengthen inspections of the work sites. 6. The company strengthens the drills for emergency response plans (on-site handling plans) for production safety accidents. 7. Supervise the company regarding its coverage under public liability insurance (to avoid compensation disputes in the event of safety accidents involving relevant parties at the company’s premises). VI. Investigation and handling of warning accidents 1. Strengthen safety management awareness and the awareness of dealing with warning accidents (our safe production is not based on luck, but rather on the implementation and enforcement of safety management systems). 2. The principles to be followed in handling warning accidents are: do not move on until the cause of the accident has been clearly analyzed, do not move on until preventive measures have been established, and do not move on until closed-loop management of warning accidents is implemented. 3. Implement a reporting (notification) system for potential accident hazards, and maintain records for such hazards. 4. Implement a reward and incentive system for those who report potential hazards and accidents, to encourage all employees to participate in safety management efforts. 5. Organize and urge various departments (teams) to analyze and study warning accidents as case studies, and include the progress of such learning in each department’s performance evaluation; thereby indirectly educating employees to regulate their own safety behaviors based on the potential development trends of these warning accident cases.