safety in economic planning

This involves designing or drawing a programme aimed at achieving some set down objectives. We can therefore say that all of us plan in one way or the other. Basically, we have Macro Safety in Economic
Planning and Micro Safety in Economic Planning. Macro Safety in Economic Planning is all about individuals. From the above, we can now define safety in economic planning or development aimed at making changes in safety and its environment. Thus, it is a collection of strategies mapped out from the management of a company to achieve a quick over all development of the welfare of personnel, equipment and property.



PROBLEMS OF SAFETY IN ECONOMIC PLANNING

There are difficulties in plans and their implementation. The gap between when plans are formulated and when they are implemented is too wide.

a) Lack of commitment to safety goals as compared to management objective on the part of the work force on employee.

b) Cumbersome procedures between the top and lower management.

c) Separation of those who planned from those who implemented.

d) Incompetent and unqualified man power who do the job of planning and work.

e) Insufficient and unreliable data which makes planning fruitless.

f) Trying to deliver too many things at a time.

THE NEED TO PLANNING ON SAFETY

a) To ensure proper use of safety gadgets such as over-all, Ear plug, face mask and respirators, etc.

b) To avoid failure or problems in the course of implementing safety development programmes.

c) To mobilize all workforce in place and the people behind government, execution of all safety rules and regulations. To eliminate all possible hazards such as fire disaster and down time occurrences.

d) To easily attract management influence needed to enforce the laws promulgated.



SAFETY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES IN ECONOMIC PLANNING

1) To have a diversified and self reliance or awareness in safety

2) To reduce accident rate and increase in man hour

3) To attain a favourable balance of total man hour

4) To have a rapid increase with positive results.

FEATURES OF A SAFETY PLAN

1) It is for a given period

2) It is based on accidents and incidents that had occurred and its preventive measures in the company

3) It contains the safety objectives which the plan is designed to achieve

4) It sets out measures to address the situation in explosions, personal and RTA accidents.



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