SAFETY AND WELFARE MEASURES IN FACTORIES ABSTRACT SAFETY MEANS Safety means a complete understanding of your work and

knowledge of every step that must be taken (TSTI/AHA) and the realization that mistakes could be costly to yourself and to the company.

Safety means good judgment. Never rely on luck; always be prepared to cope with unexpected situations and being alert when following your routine. Safety means consideration for the family that depends on you, for the company that employs you, and for your own welfare. Safety means remembering the safety rules set up by your company and applying them every minute when you are on the job.

SAFETY --------- Whos Responsibility? Safety is primarily the responsibility of the management. This responsibility should rest on the shoulders of all cadres of management, such as Plant Manager, Production Manager, Chief Engineer, Personal Manager, Maintenance Engineer, Individual Foreman, Safety Officer or Director. Every organization should formulate and implement a safety policy. The procedure to be adopted naturally depends upon the size of a company, the number of plants it operates, the nature of the in which it is engaged, the production technology it uses, and the attitude of the top management. After it has spelt out its safety policy, a company should establish a safety programme, the primary goals of which should be to reduce the number of hazardous factors which are likely to cause accidents, and to develop safe working habits among its employees.

Safety Programme: Safety programme deals with the prevention of accidents and with minimizing the resulting loss and damage to persons and property. Five basic principles must govern the safety programme of an organization. These are:

1.Industrial accidents result from a municipality of factors, but these have to be traced to their root causes, which are usually faults in the management system arising from poor leadership from the top, inadequate supervision, insufficient attention to the safety design into the system, an unsystematic approach to the identification, analysis and elimination of hazards, and poor training facilities. 2. the most important function of safety programmer id to identify potential hazards; provide effective safety facilities and equipment and to take prompt remedial action. 3. The safety policies of the organization should be determined by the top management who must be continuously involved in monitoring safety performance and in ensuring that corrective action is taken when necessary. 4. Management and supervision must make fully accountable for safety performance in the work places they control. 5. All employees should be given through training in safe methods of work and receive continuing education and guidance on eliminating safety hazards and on the prevention of accidents.

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This presentation explores the powerful force positive mental attitude plays in moving an organization toward its desired goals. It emphasizes the importance of Empowering Leadership as a necessary attribute to achieving excellence in safetyand most anything else! It has been said that: What we think about, we bring about. This session is designed not to only entice managers to think about safety excellence, but also to recognize and calculate (yes, in hard numbers folks) the impact that positive, forward focused attitudes and empowering leadership practices have on creating superior results. An empowering leadership self-assessment aids participants in identifying personal and organizational leadership traits which currently contribute to their success or which pose opportunities to change for the better. Buckle up! This session takes you in the fast lane to safety excellence!

WELFARE Welfare includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of employees and is provided over and above the wages. Welfare helps in keeping the morale and motivation

of the employees high so as to retain the employees for longer duration. The welfare measures need not be in monetary terms only but in any kind/forms. Employee welfare includes monitoring of working conditions, creation of industrial harmony through infrastructure for health, industrial relations and insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers and their families.

Labor welfare entails all those activities of employer which are directed towards providing the employees with certain facilities and services in addition to wages or salaries.

Labor welfare has the following objectives: 1. To provide better life and health to the workers 2. To make the workers happy and satisfied 3. To relieve workers from industrial fatigue and to improve intellectual, cultural and material conditions of living of the workers. The basic features of labor welfare measures are as follows: 1. Labor welfare includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status. 2. Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining 3. Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time. 4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency. 5. The purpose of labor welfare is to bring about the development of the whole personality of the workers to make a better workforce.

The very logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. The purpose of providing such facilities is to make their work life better and also to raise their standard of living. The important benefits of welfare measures can be summarized as follows:
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They provide better physical and mental health to workers and thus promote a healthy work environment

Facilities like housing schemes, medical benefits, and education and recreation facilities for workers families help in raising their standards of living. This makes workers to pay more attention towards work and thus increases their productivity.

Employers get stable labor force by providing welfare facilities. Workers take active interest in their jobs and work with a feeling of involvement and participation.

Employee welfare measures increase the productivity of organization and promote healthy industrial relations thereby maintaining industrial peace.

The social evils prevalent among the labors such as substance abuse, etc are reduced to a greater extent by the welfare policies.