Human Performance Improvements: Key to Prevent Fires and Fatal Incidents in Industry

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18414066

Harbans Lal Kaila (Director-Forum of Behavioural Safety, Professor of Organisational Psychology (Retd.), SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, Maharashtra)

Daily fires and fatalities, incidents and accidents – is the land-sliding of a nation’s as well as companies’ safety culture requiring immediate reviews to act upon with innovative interventions. Safety culture approach and methodology of corporates is fragmented, not focused; reactive, not proactive; probable, not precise. Most of the Top managements play proxies of safety culture, not real or in action. Immediate abatement of workplace risks is of utmost importance, as the lack of safety measures leads to organisational stress and burnout. Organisational restructuring of safety culture for business sustainability needs an attempt by the corporates. Conducting safety culture at the levels with simplicity and intensity is important to see the effects and their positive consequences. More than languages, affectionate voices, as in family, are important. Reasons why some companies succeed and others struggle with safety culture development? Controlling unsafe / at-risk behaviours is important, but more important are organisational issues that impact safety culture development. Safety culture is not only organisational behaviour management but it is human performance improvement (HPI). There are people in organisations who lobby against safety culture for different reasons, and some people, on the other hand, push the same to another level. Engage the government on the subject of safety culture so that every corporation has to sustain it for saving lives and businesses. Corporate safety should not be an event management but a think tank for constant action. Invite industry-renowned mentors for innovating company’s safety culture. Safety professionals of some companies struggle too much when directors and top leadership don’t value Safety, and then safety doesn’t become part of the daily culture of their company. Production targets often supersede people’s safety in such companies. A strong Safety culture is the defence wall against all odds in business sustainability/losses. Every company, every individual goes through both safe as well as at-risk behaviours, every festival wishes only safe behaviours for our colleagues irrespective of caste, colour or creed. Let’s promise that we shall make this planet safe and comfortable forever for each other. In order to prevent fires and fatalities, building positive organisations would require human performance improvements, which can be achieved by implementations of the Total Safety Culture (TSC) Interventions and scoping BBS actions for its cultural enrichment, depth, quality and updation. Organisational demography of safety culture is vital in effectively preventing fires, fatalities and incidents.