By Motivating people highest degree of involvement can be achieved. How is it possible in an industry? How is it achieved?

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Q3. By Motivating people highest degree of involvement can be achieved.  How is it possible in an industry?  How is it achieved?

Introduction

Why do people do the things they do?  How can I get people to do what ought to be done? How can I motivate people to opt for safety measures?  What are they going to think about these measures?  How can we change the attitude of people towards safety?  Questions along these lines are amongst those that management has to be ready when it comes to changing the behavior of people towards safety.  These challenges faced by the management can be overcome by the number of strategies adapted.  There are two ways in which the workers can be motivated for safety of self, others and equipment (a) by rewarding them when the safety strategies are put into practice (b) and also best through by self-direction, self-control and disciplinary application.

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Indifferent Attitude Towards Safety

We need to motivate workers towards safety so as to avoid and minimize accidents in the industry.  The term accident can be defined as an event that results in unintended harm or damage it is a very unpleasant experience where losses can occur.  In an industry it is usually a result of a contact with a source of energy (kinetic, chemical, electrical, radiation etc).  In terms of damage, an accident could result in property damage such as fire, breakage, distortion etc.  Why do these accidents occur there can be lot of reasons for that some of them are mentioned below: -

Lack of Knowledge - The worker was not trained properly on a particular job, or he may not have had experience, skill to handle the job there was lack of orientation.  The initial instructions given to him would not have been sufficient.

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Inadequate Leadership And/Or Supervision – His work was not supervised properly there was not adequate performance management and evaluation.  The delegation of work was improper. There was no proper communication of policies, procedure and objectives.  Inadequate communication of safety and health data.

Communication Gap Between The Various Departments – All the departments are not co-operative and would not share their information with each other even if they need to work in close co-operation.

Favoritism – There may be favoritism, which leads to demotion of some employees, which is highly de motivating and leads to indifferent attitude towards safety.

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