Business Challenge
Safety hazardous
Increasing indiscipline
Negligence of safety protocols
Poor decision making
Minor accidents
IMPACT
- Reduction in the number of minor accidents by 30% in the next 2 months.
- Installation of safety kits around the arena.
- Black-coded areas in specific time frames were not used, resulting in regular machinery maintenance.
- Some green areas were made more accessible by installing televisions where workers could sit and relax.
- Charging fines for breaking access ensured a reduction in indiscipline.
- Reporting rate of any threats increased by 20% in response to the weekly meetings
FLOOR INSIGHTS
- Introductory workshops on organizational health and safety gave insights into the lack of awareness of information on health measures in blue-collar workers.
- The presence of a language barrier creates challenges in understanding signs of threats displayed in the unit.
- Lack of clear guidance on role shifts by senior management.
- Based on interviewing workers: they faced challenges in understanding machinery maintenance periods.
BEHAVIORAL DRIVERS
- Use of visual trigger warnings
- Colour coding workplace
- Reinforcement
APPLICATIONS
- Safety protocol workshops were organized in bilingual (Hindi and English)
- Posters of watching eyes to remind employees where safety procedures are critical were pasted in the Hindi language.
- Areas in the workplace were colour coded with black and green postersBlack = zones that cannot be used. Green= zones that can be used.
- An amount of Rs.50 was charged to blue-collar workers as a fine for breaking access into black-coded areas.
- Weekly meetings were made compulsory with the supervisor to discuss any changes in the manufacturing units or any concerns that needed to be discussed.