Does Your Organization Enforce Its Established Safety Rule?

Ohh it is soooo easy for organisations to pride themselves as the best Safety Practicing Company, they come out of every other audit clean and aced, they have their policies, rules, plan intact and better yet all the personnel and resources are not left out. Customers, contractors and the general masses know they are on top of their safety game and oh they are the envy of other Companies. 

Boooom something happens and the outcome of the investigation leave people wondering. Are these Companies really who they say they are, have they been who they have been portraying themselves to be? Who are they behind the prying eyes of Governing Bodies,  Customers, Contractors, Stakeholders etc.

Mmmmh I wonder. Leave your comments, thank you

A Mini Ice Age?

Well you read that right, a computer somewhere with 97% accuracy so far is predicting an ice age soon. Wow!

Read complete story here

HSE Basics

I just realized we have not done the basic Introduction to HSE for some of our readers that might not be familiar with the terms we are going to be using here and will probably need some vital information from here. Well like they always say "it is better late than never". Please note that this is going to be given to you in bits. If you are not familiar with the terms already, then you might or can get easily bored with them if chocked with so many terms at a time and in turn lose interest in HSE and we do not want that for so just stay updated with our post and you will be getting it interestingly in bits.

So let us start with knowing the meaning of the acronym HSE or HSSE 'depends on the Company's preference'

H- Health

S-Safety and S-Securit

E-Environment

Well that is simply it and in case you are wondering why so many colors, well if you are going to be dealing with Safety in any way then you will have to get familiar with playing with colors "we will get to why when we get to safety colors" get used to the meaning of this acronyms for now. ciao

OUR Earth, Our Only Environment

The importance of taking care of the Environment can never be over emphasized.

An Environment in a very simple term can be said to be anything or premises that surrounds you and this come alongside so many features like animals, humans, cars, truck, trees, People (referred to as biodiversity) etc. The Natural state of the Environment can be altered by man’s (Our) activities which can either be of positive or negative impact on it and sooner or later on you. Therefore it is of utmost importance that you and everyone around you should be the ultimate Engineer of what they expect of their Environment

The statement "what you give is what you get" relates perfectly to People and the Environment

If we:

• Plant trees and nurture them
• Dispose our waste properly
• Clean and Sanitize our Environment and drainages
• Segregate our waste for easy separation and recycling
• Minimize our waste and strive to optimize the use of our materials/items before disposal etc.

The environment will in turn give us:

• Clean and fresh air
• Conducive/Healthy Environment
• Fertile soil and in turn healthy crops for our consumption
• And most importantly we continue to exist, our generation to come will be assured of their existence (update on WED, Themed "sustainable production and consumption" coming" 

But if we do not:

• Dispose our waste properly
• Clean and sanitize our drainages and surroundings
• Mow our lawns and cut down your grass as at when due
• Avoid waste and even burning them
• Practice Sustainability

Then don't be too surprised when you get:

Flooding, contaminated air, ozone layer depletion resulting to global warming, Green House Effect and acid rain, Frequent ill health and all (read our last article for recent natural disaster), Extinction (Do you want to become history?)

This year's WED (World Environmental Day) on the 5th of June, 2015 dwelled more on this. Ensure you do all you can to keep your temporary and consistent Environment clean and habitable for you, everyone and other species around you.

Always remember that first you need to avoid waste, if you can't then apply the 5Rs of caring for your Environment which are Reduce, Recover Residue, Reuse, and Recycle and finally treat then dispose properly, apply these in your daily activities.

Update on WED article soon!!!

Recent Toll on the Environment

Before my next post I want you to quickly scale through recent disasters to show you the importance of what we are talking about. you might feel ah that does not concern me, it is not happening in my Country and it would not, well my dear if you continue treating the Environment the way you do then it is coming to you sooner than you think. OK let me not get carried away lest we divert. let us take a look at the disasters and the effect on the people:

People under the scotching sun photo by Altaf Qadri

• well the first is the recent heat wave in India presently ongoing reported to have killed 1,100 people in less than a week "yea you read that right, people not animals" God and according to CNN the worst part hit is the Southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh where authorities say 852 people have died in the heat wave followed with 266 in a neighboring state of Telangana.

Now who are the set of people who have been reported to have been hit the most, they are the poorer ones like the beggars, homeless and labourers of which Construction workers is said to have the larger chunk so far because they cannot abandon their jobs, they still have to survive even in the blistering heat according to CNN correspondent Malika Kapur.

Now let us be sincere with ourselves, who are the set of people with the lowest regards for the Environment...

Others are Texas and oklahoma flood which has resulted in the death of 6 people and 12 others missing, The Houston hard torrential rain on Tuesday which has been reported to have killed 19 people et al all this among other disaster we can not lay our hands on now. You can share your experience with us if any.

well I will leave that to you, the next time you decide to treat the Environment like you can do without it just remember that when the outcome of your actions reveals its ugly head it is going to hit you the hardest.

Now what can you do to avoid this-read our next post