Learn from Disaster and Prepare for a Safer Future

The caption of the article is the theme for this year’s National Safety Day/ week. This year we celebrate the 50^th National safety day / Week.

“आपदा से सीखें और सुरक्षित भविष्य की तैयारी करें”

This has been initiated by National Safety Council, India

National Safety Council

National Safety Council was set up on 4^th March 1966 by the Ministry of labor, Government of India. The thought of setting up of National Safety Council is taken its birth in the President’s first conference on the Industrial Safety held in Delhi from 11^th to 13^th December 1965.

Celebration of National Safety Day / Week

The celebration of National Safety Day / Week started in 1971 to mark the foundation day of National Safety Council, on 4^th March every year with a vision to spread the awareness about the SAFETY in all areas covering organization and industries from different sectors safety day is celebrated and from 4^th to 10^th March safety week celebrated.

The celebration aims at increase the awareness about the safety and reduction in overall accident in all sectors.

The awareness among the industrial workers is generated by taking the various initiatives such as Public functions, seminars on the safety and panel discussion mainly on the theme of safety. Awareness also generated by distributing the safety badge, poem competition and displaying the banners.

The Theme and Disaster

Learn from Disaster and Prepare for a Safer Future

“आपदा से सीखें और सुरक्षित भविष्य की तैयारी करें”

Brief note on two biggest disasters,

1. Kedarnath disaster

Kedarnathji is famous for the temple of lord shiv build in 8^th century. The disaster happened in 2013 when there is huge rainfall on dated between 13^th to 17^th june. This resulted in the melting of the Chorabari glacier and the eruption of the Mandakini river and the flood affected the large part of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, India.

Historical records shows the area had been affected by similar natural disasters back in 1893, 1968 and in 1970 when the calamitous impact of the flood had resulted in the Chipko movement [1].

2. Glacier broke off at Joshimath, Uttarakhand, India

A glacier broke off at Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday 7^th February 2021, leading to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga River and causing large-scale devastation in the upper reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas [2].

Above both the disaster gives us the take away and best example of learning a lesson for preparing a safe future.

QCFI and SAFETY

To spread the awareness about the safety, Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI) propagates the concept of Lean Safety Circle (LSC) in the industries and organization. This has been initiated by Mr. D K Srivastava, Executive Director, QCFI and is taking pace form 2010 onward. This also helps to motivate the employee to make the case study on the safety under Lean Safety Circle (LSC) for all levels in the organization in the form of cross functional team.

The concept of LSC is based on the lean principle of three types of waste, Muda (Wasteful activity), Muri (Wasteful design to reduce strain) and Mura (Wasteful implementation, over burden)

Here problem are selected which are, instant, given by the management and which are available in the problem bank. These problems are solved by using DMAIC methodology (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) in place of 12 step methodology of Quality Circle.

The benefits of Lean Safety Circle (LQC) are

• Develop the team work
• Develop problem solving skill
• Develop innovative thinking

This will give the opportunity to the employee to present their case study in their own organization, QCFI Chapter convention, and National convention too.

1. Here is what happened in Kedarnath & rest of Uttarakhand in 2013
2. Massive flood as Glacier breaks off at Joshimath 150 labourers missing