Do safety officers manage safety, or do they supervise safety? There is a certain amount of controversy about this at present.
For outsiders, of course, they feel that the safety officer should take care of safety. Otherwise, why is there such a position: safety management personnel, if you are not responsible for safety, then you are not responsible for not working, not performing your duties? As a matter of course, the safety officer should take care of safety.
For us insiders, of course, we are well aware of the embarrassment and hardship, not that we don't want to take care of it, nor that we don't have the responsibility to take it, but most of the current safety management jobs can't manage safety.
Why can't safety officers manage safety at all?
First of all, I have to understand a concept, safety is a virtual thing, you can't directly manage safety, this is without a grasp, just like you say to seize the air and keep time.
The logic behind safety management is to achieve the purpose of managing safety through a series of tangible things such as managing people, managing equipment, formulating systems, and standardizing processes.
The question is, what kind of authority does the current security officer give and what kind of work can play a role in managing safety?
Now the main cause of safety accidents is from people's unsafe behavior, the current situation is that the vast majority of safety officers do not have the authority to stop violations, and workers are not managed by safety officers. To put it bluntly, no one else is birding you, and you don't take what your safety officer says seriously at all, how can you manage it?
As for equipment management, this does not exist, there must be a production department or the equipment department is responsible, you a safety officer is actually not suitable for the equipment area to point out, can only remind the maintenance, safety protection device defects.
The system procedures and process flow are actually very critical actions, and they are a very important part of the safety officer's intervention in the company's safety management. It's just very, very helpless, many of the current systems and procedures, and technological processes are basically in vain, even if you make these rules perfectly, the actual operation will not be implemented.
The above is the embarrassment of the security officer's management of safety, which is really a bit powerless and powerless. Some things can't be done, and some things have no effect, so the result becomes "bitter talk", and we must keep reminding you to pay attention to safety.
Another more advanced point of view is that the safety officer is not in charge of safety, but in supervising safety.
This is a very correct concept, the safety department is the role of the supervisor of the company's safety management work, responsible for supervising other departments to perform safety duties, guiding and organizing training, and providing advice to decision-makers.
This alone should be said to be a very ideal situation, for example, those multinational companies that have done very well in EHS are such a set of management methods. The security department is vertically managed, not specifically responsible for security matters, but acting as a supervisory guide.
Although this concept is advanced, it is not really innovative. In ancient dynasties, the eunuchs and eunuchs around the emperor were such a group, they themselves did not have much power, but they could go to the local area to supervise the army on behalf of the emperor. There is also the current Commission for Discipline Inspection, which also plays a similar role, not doing specific work, but is responsible for supervising implementation.
Obviously, it is unlikely that the security management of our current enterprise will have such a position of responsibility. Why not? In fact, it is very easy to understand, if the safety officer really has so much authority, how to balance production and safety? So if you think about it, you should understand that it is impossible to give great power to safety administrators, except in industries where no mistakes can be made at all (e.g., aviation, nuclear power).
This is why the safety officer is not easy to do, the requirements of this job are actually very high, and it is also a very important and critical position for the enterprise, and it is important for the production and operation decision-making of the enterprise. But obviously, many companies don't want to give him such important permissions.
1.It is true that the safety officer does not care about safety, but supervises safety, which is a relatively advanced concept
2.In our company, the safety officer still has to take care of safety, or to do specific safety work affairs, which is the original intention of our company to set up safety posts.
3.Only through a series of tangible things such as managing people, equipment, formulating systems, and standardizing processes, can the purpose of managing safety be achieved.
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