Six sentences for safe and reflective thinking

Thread Content

This post was last edited by yinkuilin6868 on 2016-5-17 at 12:49. Many people like to say that working in security is a profession that involves doing good deeds. Of course, if the right things are done and sufficient effort is put in, such results should objectively be achieved. The problem is, if we insist on such logic, what about our work mistakes? Are we more or less slack? What about our mistakes and oversights? It’s easy for us to place ourselves on a moral high ground, but it’s also easy to push ourselves into the depths of sin, isn’t that true? ! It has never been a matter of passion when it comes to safety work; there is nothing exciting about the profession of safety that could inspire anyone to love it. What is called passion arises from the combination of words such as integration, perseverance, commitment, effort, dedication, and sacrifice; these elements give rise to a sense of professional responsibility, mission, belonging, fulfillment, and presence, and even lead to holding onto this profession as a kind of* habit. It’s less about passion and more about the years of experience accumulated in the security industry. I believe in a bit of empiricism. Not all forms of empiricism are harmful; in safety-related fields, experience often saves lives. Those who are able to survive a mine disaster are mostly experienced people. The reason why drills are conducted in various industries is to provide everyone with experience in escaping from hypothetical accidents, so that they can use this experience to deal with real dangers. In the security industry, experience is valuable. Safety accidents have nothing to do with \"ignorance.\" Even animals understand the importance of life, and even the most uncivilized people know the meaning of existence. There’s no need to be extremely rich; as long as one has enough food and clothing, who would want to work in coal mines hundreds of meters underground, or endure the pungent smells in chemical plants? For many people, survival comes before safety. Furthermore, we disapprove of those who put down their hoes and pick up hammers; we tend to attribute their violations to a lack of safety awareness and knowledge. As well-dressed civilized people, who drives without breaking the rules? ! Who walks without jaywalking? ! The hidden dangers behind those obvious hazards are the greatest of all. Safety professionals update the data related to hazard identification almost daily; these data represent both individual achievements and the performance of their organizations. However, identifying and rectifying potential problems is only a temporary solution; to truly address the issue, it is necessary to understand how those problems arise and to make efforts to solve the underlying causes, so as to tackle the root of the problem. Only then is it possible to break free from the cycle of \"risks, rectifications, new risks, further rectifications\". The highest level of safety is protection rather than prevention. The fact that safety efforts are not given sufficient attention and that those working in the field of safety hold low status is almost a common consensus in the industry, and it is also considered to be a major cause of frequent safety incidents. In fact, we cannot attribute this situation entirely to external factors. The logic of safety work is “STOP” and “NO”; those in charge of safety are accustomed to stopping things and preventing them from happening. Whether it is **driven development or companies striving for profitability, it’s not that they don’t care about safety; rather, they have to make trade-offs, make choices, and take some risks. If safety work can add a safety factor or provide safeguards to such choices, decisions, and risks, rather than simply advocating for a \"stop\", perhaps the status of safety work will **increase**.