Safety In Numbers

There Is No Dearth Of Safety And Security Solutions In The Market. The Manufacturing Industry Should Not Stop At Adopting It At The Workplace

- Molly R

MODERN MANUFACTURING UNITS ARE required to produce big batches of high-quality products while meeting tight deadlines to keep up with the ever-increasing market demands. But this also requires that manufacturing facilities strike a perfect balance between operational efficiency and employee safety.

Today's modern manufacturing units are highly cautious and take safety as a serious concern. Despite this, accidents and fatalities occur. More often than not, it's the personnel who chooses to ignore safety measures and decides to take risks. It is important that employees who work on specific equipment are trained to identify abnormalities like strange sounds or smell, exposed wires, vibrations, leaks, smoke, abnormal wobbling, irregular grinding or other potentially hazardous signs which indicate the need for an immediate shutdown.

Interestingly, there are plenty of safety solutions also available that are easy to don thus encouraging shop floor employees (this is where most accidents happen) to take care of themselves.

THE NEED TO ADOPT

In recent times, while large manufacturing companies are stringent about safety, SMEs too are adopting safety and security solutions because they recognise their benefits. Sunita Sapra, COO, KARAM Industries, says, "An important reason for this change has to do with workers equipped with safety and security equipment working more productively and remaining longer with employers that provide such solutions. Increasingly SMEs are concerned with the safety of workers and are wary of accidents in the workplace. They realise that equipping workers with PPE is an effective way to improve productivity and most importantly to keep workers safe. Concern about workers safety far from being an afterthought is taken seriously by enterprises and many recognise adherence to high standards of safety signals a business is professionally managed and successful."