SME Resources

Nurturing Workplace Safety and Health Culture

MOE School Safety Seminar5 Nov 2014

Goh Chye Guan

Advisor, Loyal Reliance Pte Ltd

Managing Director, SME Academy

Scope

1. Causes and Control Model / School Safety Framework

2. What is a Lacking?

3. Management Control of Loss

4. Lessons Learned

5. The 4 A’s of Risk Management

6. The 5 Sources of Loss

7. Summary

Root Causes

• Human Factors

• Organisational Factors

Immediate Causes

• Unsafe Acts

• Unsafe Conditions

Contact

• Incidents

• Near Misses

Loss

• People

• Property

• Process

• Profit

• Planet

Leadership

Culture Practices

Motivation

1. Causes and Control Model and Safety Framework

Root Causes

•Human Factors

•Organisational Factors

Immediate Causes

•Unsafe Acts

•Unsafe Conditions

Contact

•Incidents

•Near Misses

Loss

•People

•Property

•Process

•Profit

•Planet

Leadership

Culture Practices

Motivation

Causes and Control Model and Safety Framework

Lack of Management Control• Lack of Program• Lack of Program Standards• Lack of Compliance

17 Oct, 201416 dead, 11 injured4Minute Concert, South Korea

Lessons Learned

They say a ventilation grate collapsed and a

group of concert-goers fell 10 metres (33ft)

into an underground parking area

The crowds had been watching an outdoor

performance .

The victims climbed on top of the grate to get

a better view of the show

Most of the dead and injured were believed

to be students, YTN said. It is believed

concert organisers had repeatedly urged the

fans to move off the grate before it

collapsed.

27 Sep, 2014

16 May, 2014

Root Causes

•Human Factors

•Organisational Factors

Immediate Causes

•Unsafe Acts

•Unsafe Conditions

Contact

•Incidents

•Near Misses

Loss

•People

•Property

•Process

•Profit

•Planet

Leadership

Culture Practices

Motivation

2. What is Lacking?Lack of Management Control• Lack of Program• Lack of Program Standards• Lack of Compliance

Involve the key stakeholders: The student

Identify works to be done

Set standards

Measure performance

Evaluate performance

Correction (and Commendation)

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Lack of Management Control

1) Lack of Programme

2) Lack of Programme Standards

3) Lack of Compliance

Which is more common in your

workplace?

4. Lessons Learned

Video: www.csb.gov

• After the rainbow: a video safety message focusing on preventing accidents in high school chemistry laboratories

• Experimenting with danger: a video to illustrate hazards associated with conducting research at chemical laboratories in academic institutions

•Database of accidents / hi-potential incidents

• Local and overseas

• Sports

•Drowning

•Bee attack

• Laboratory accidents

5. The 4 A’s of Risk Management

Aware

Accept

Apply

Assimilate

6. The 5 Sources of Loss

• People: Teachers, Student, Event Organisers, Food Suppliers

• Equipment: Sporting equipment, outing equipment

• Material: Food, teaching materials (laboratory)

• Environment: Normal classroom environment, laboratory, outing, overseas

• Method: instructional methods

17 Oct, 201416 dead, 11 injured4Minute Concert, South Korea

Lessons Learned

They say a ventilation grate collapsed and a

group of concert-goers fell 10 metres (33ft)

into an underground parking area

The crowds had been watching an outdoor

performance .

The victims climbed on top of the grate to get

a better view of the show

Most of the dead and injured were believed

to be students, YTN said. It is believed

concert organisers had repeatedly urged the

fans to move off the grate before it

collapsed.

Sewol ferry disaster in April that killed more than 300 people, most of them high school studentscarrying 476 people16 April

Lessons Learned

the roof caved in on a student-packed auditorium near the southern city of Gyeongju, killing 10 people and injuring more than 100. An investigation uncovered evidence of structural flaws and lax management controls17 Feb 2014

Lessons Learned