Think before act is a toolbox topic for today. The purpose of this topic is, of course, to find the things that cause or help cause accidents. Your safety and that of the people around you depend on your attitude towards prevention because prevention is everyone's task. Its purpose is to control risks to avoid accidents and occupational diseases.
You may not realize it, but a lot of the wrong things we have here can be prevented through “think before act”. And this is true for the entire plant and particularly for accidents. Not just those caused by a faulty guard, a bad ladder, or a loose hammer head. A breakdown of any kind increases the probability of accidents because it causes confusion and usually creates hazards.
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Let's go to the bottom. When you arrive at work each shift, you should look at things. Take a good look around you. Is there something in the access? You know enough about what you have to do. You want a good place to stand. This means a clean, even, non-slippery floor without grease or oil stains to avoid slip-trip and fall hazards.
It also means that there is nothing under their feet that could make them fall, such as pipes, screws or wooden blocks. Falls cause or contribute to too many accidents. One can sprain an ankle or a knee. You can break a finger or two, or hurt a wrist. In closed rooms, can you hit your face against something?
Stop, think before act
Stand up, think, and act safely, aims to enhance the concentration and awareness of staff and emphasize the firm commitment to safety, as a crucial aspect of their activities. Every time we go to do some activity, be it at work, at home, or anywhere, let's follow these simple recommendations to reduce risks and avoid accidents:
- Stop: Before starting the activity, give yourself some time to think, do not just start the job, because those seconds that you stop can be the difference between ending the day safely or having an accident.
- Think: What am I going to do? Do I know the procedure and the basic safety standards to start the work? Do I have all the necessary safety implements and do I know how to use them? Are the people who accompany me aware of what we are going to do, know the safety measures and are you using your personal protective equipment?
- Act: If from the previous activity, you determined that you do not have all the information or all the safety implements necessary to start a new task safely, then do what you have to do to have them and do not start the work without completing what is missing until you fully agree. If you are ready, then: Play it safe.
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Inspect your workplace before work commence
Check your workplace so that it is neat and orderly. You should not have anything there or in the drawers that will not be used. Things such as tools must be in their place, inspected, and color-coded. The person who was able to use it before may have left it clean and tidy, if not you should fix it before you start work.
Inspect every tool or piece of equipment you are going to use and this applies even when you take it out of the store. Its double control adds safety and if you find a defect, do not blame others, because you can always make a mistake. If you are going to use equipment that can be easily damaged, inspect it thoroughly beforehand.
Supervisors who have no interest in accident prevention do not need to know anything about how to prevent accidents. Knowledge in the hands of lazy or indifferent people is useless. Only supervisors who want to remedy the problem of accidents need to know how to fix them. And it would certainly be helpful for those people to know all there is to know about accident prevention.
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However, in these modern times when technology advances so rapidly and new equipment and materials come to the site every day, it is not always possible to know everything that one would like to know about accident prevention.
Something about the general principles of machine guarding and being aware of how those guards can protect someone from injury. That no operation can be made hazard-proof. Therefore, they must know those operating hazards from which they must protect themselves and their co-workers.
In the same way, supervisors must know how to explain to their workers the possibility that they could be exposed to some danger if they did not behave correctly.
Three simple steps of thinking before the act
- First, the job is started correctly. You learn the good habit of safety at work.
- Second, practice the right habit. You keep doing the job correctly, properly, and safely, every time you can do it.
- Finally, don't let yourself get out of the habit, always do what you're supposed to do the right way, like thinking before acting.
Conclusion
Let's summarize: Start by doing things right, keep doing them right, and try to do them even a little better. This is how good “think before act” are made. Ask yourself, do I think when starting the work, how have I thought about each activity that is performed?
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