Articles
  • Safety, health and environmental (SHE) risk assessment and strategies to create a sustainable safety culture in ceramic and HVAC industries
  • Sunil Arjun Bhaleraoa, D. Senthilkumara,* and Narendren Nairb

  • aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamilnadu, India
    bVoltas Ltd, Mumbai, India

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This article incorporates the various diversified challenges faced by industries which results in major incidents. These incidents impact the performance and brand image of the organization in the competitive market. To understand the challenges one of Asia’s biggest ceramic industry has been selected, existing safety culture was analysed and based on that a 3 phase action plan was devised to bring cultural shift. First phase consisted of immediate action plan to bring the current situation under control, the second phase was intermediate action plan to establish the safety management systems and the third phase was a long term action plan to implement the cultural tools and sustain them. With this a practical approach to resolve safety, health and environment (SHE) challenges helped the organization to change the culture which resulted in improvement of major parameters like training man-hours, reporting & closure of observations, reporting of Near Miss and Audits. It also helped in reduction of lagging parameters like LTIs, LTIFR and AIFR


Keywords: Health and environment, Risk assessment, Safety, Safety culture, Safety management, Sustainability

This Article

  • 2023; 24(4): 662-674

    Published on Aug 31, 2023

  • 10.36410/jcpr.2023.24.4.662
  • Received on Apr 17, 2023
  • Revised on May 12, 2023
  • Accepted on Jun 12, 2023

Correspondence to

  • D. Senthilkumar
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamilnadu, India
    Tel : +91 427 4099999

  • E-mail: dskumar33@gmail.com