The most embarrassing thing that can happen in safe production – I’m sure you’ve experienced it too……

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One of the embarrassments: safety inspection officers are tasked with managing corporate safety. Whether you admit it or not, this is generally the case – both corporate safety managers and safety inspection officers themselves hope to identify more potential hazards in various aspects of the workplace, such as equipment, the environment, electricity usage, fire safety, and so on. Enterprise safety managers desire this because, in the view of most of them, \"a safety supervisor must have a thorough understanding of the workplace and be able to identify many potential hazards that I cannot detect; only then is one qualified to give orders to me, earn my respect, and persuade my boss to pay attention to safety matters.\" If you come to my company and can’t do anything other than look at the rules and regulations and file records, then you lack competence. ” The reason why safety inspection officers desire this so much may be their high standards for themselves; they believe that by identifying more potential hazards, it demonstrates their competence ； It may also be driven by vanity – the more potential risks that are identified, the more respect one earns from the company, rather than being dismissed by the company’s security staff as someone who knows nothing. But in fact, the roles and positions of safety supervision officers and enterprise safety personnel are different. The former is the supervisor of a company’s compliance with laws and standards related to safe production, while the latter acts as the driver of safe production within the company, providing technical support and acting as a consultant. Safety inspection officers fail to conduct inspections of enterprises’ compliance with safety production laws and standards in accordance with the 20 specific requirements specified in Article 8 of Order No. 24, instead taking on roles as the enterprises’ own safety managers; this can be seen as putting effort in the wrong place, or even as a form of neglecting one’s duties. This kind of neglect of one’s duties has already led to safety inspection officials ending up in prison in some places, which is truly embarrassing. Second awkwardness: Enterprise safety officers end up doing the work of workshop supervisors, team leaders, and frontline workers. Article 22 of the Work Safety Law stipulates that one of the responsibilities of work safety management personnel is to \"inspect the work safety conditions of their respective units, promptly identify potential hazards related to work safety accidents, and propose suggestions for improving work safety management.\" There is a reason behind such legislation, but it also has serious drawbacks. A common issue is that the vast majority of corporate safety managers feel that it is unreliable to rely solely on safety officers to identify potential hazards within a company; the limited number of staff in safety management departments often fails to meet the demands of various safety management tasks. The problem is serious, right? The contradiction is quite obvious, right? But what’s truly embarrassing is knowing the problem and knowing how to solve it, yet still being unable to resolve it. For example, many safety officers have considered using the enterprise’s safety production responsibility system to assign tasks such as hazard identification to workshops, teams, and individual positions, thereby freeing themselves to acquire more knowledge and provide greater technical support and advisory services. But without the support of management, it’s all in vain… As a result, the safety personnel had to take on most of the tasks that normally should be handled by the workshops, teams, and workers; they worked themselves to exhaustion yet were still unable to carry out the work properly. Please tell me, is it awkward? ! What should safety production work actually look like? After talking about awkwardness, let’s talk about things that aren’t awkward. From the perspective of work safety monitoring, the normal (unproblematic) state of work safety efforts can be summarized in three words: \"each does its own thing, each fulfills its responsibilities, and everyone works together.\" Specifically, legislators, when drafting laws, should conduct more research and visit the grassroots levels as well as enterprises, to ensure that the laws enacted are more practical and do not leave those at the lower levels in a state of confusion. Safety inspection officers, you had better first conduct a thorough inspection of the 20 key areas specified in Article 8 of Order No. 24 issued by the State Administration for Work Safety. Don’t work on someone else’s field at the expense of your own, or you might end up without a stable job after all. As a business owner, you should fulfill your legal responsibilities: invest what is necessary, establish appropriate rules and systems, and provide support in the form of policies for safety officers. If safety work isn’t done properly, it will damage your factory and cost you money. Safety officer, do your best to position yourself in a role of technical support and advisor; rack your brains to develop a solid set of procedures that allow responsibilities to be distributed, thereby making the work easier and more efficient. All departments, workshops, teams, and positions within the company – you too should take on your own responsibilities for safe production. Don’t always shift the responsibility for safety to the safety officers; that will overwhelm them. Who knows who might be the one to suffer an accident?