Safety, Hygiene and Working Environment

Who owns itThe plant’s labour-standards committee and its safety officers

What it targetsZero accidents, and a better quality of working life and safety in the plant

What the job isCollect the data and keep the accident statistics · Analyse the work to find the steps where harm could occur · Remove pollution from the workplace · Measure the rate of energy conservation · Promote the health of the staff through activities · Build an atmosphere worth working in

The question TPM asks about safety management is how to make the work safer, by improving the equipment and the conditions under which it is done.

Everyone should work with zero accidents and zero pollution in mind, because an accident can happen at any moment — and a machine not running at full effectiveness does its own damage to the environment.

Safety management within TPM runs through three: safety in autonomous maintenance, safety in planned maintenance, and safety in maintenance prevention.

TPM, the environment and safety

The relationship between safety management and TPM is part of what raises the organisation’s overall capability — productivity, quality control, cost control, on-time delivery, environment and safety, and the morale of the workforce. TPM and safety management together help manage the machines, the equipment and the plant, and through them the environment and safety.

Reference

ธานี อ่วมอ้อ. การบำรุงรักษาด้วยตนเอง. กรุงเทพฯ: สถาบันเพิ่มผลผลิตแห่งชาติ, 2547.
ธานี อ่วมอ้อ. การบำรุงรักษาทวีผลแบบทุกคนมีส่วนร่วม. พิมพ์ครั้งที่ 2. กรุงเทพฯ: สถาบันเพิ่มผลผลิตแห่งชาติ, 2546.
Development Program: Implementing Total Productive Maintenance. Tokyo: Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance, 1996.

Safety, Hygiene and Working Environment

TPM, the environment and safety

Reference

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