By the virtue of habit, nature of job and the frontlines at which these operators function, safety culture becomes a tough nut to crack. While the organizational vision might be aligned with safety transformation through better digital technologies supporting monitoring, reporting and analysis – training the on-ground crew can be tricky.
Safety practices are largely ignored in a day and age where we wish to secure material possessions as soon as possible. But take a moment to also admire the countless workmen and women out there who are exposed to such dangers on-site. Simple safety practices can reap more benefits than expenditure even in shorter runs.
In modern days India’s rising young workforce has one clear objective in their mind – growth. In each pursuit, through their career or in personal lives, growth translates as progress. And therefore, organizations today need trainings which have embedded growth potential apart from the obvious learning goals.
Data comes to our rescue in many such instances and although we like to think of data as a great enabler, the final results can be a lot different. Data culture is a part of the equation that can go unnoticed and unrecognized in safety. Precision systems with accurate data analytics honed by trained EHS data scientists and experts.
Smartphones are fast becoming the delivery agents for almost everything that is consumed by us. Even formal pedagogy based on school lessons and curriculum now have interactive apps. Animation can leverage these fast processing high definition devices too. The best part of technologies is the flexibility, adaptability of content for many platforms.
Safety and health in many societies is integrated among the systems used by the public, every day. However, cultural threads related to safety and health are largely ignored and neglected in many cases. For the lack of a better reason and sense, we admonish lack of resources, time and sometimes even start questioning key practices.