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Message
of the Month
Dear Colleagues,
As I write to you my last contribution to the Quarterly HSE newsletter before I leave PDO, I do so with mixed emotions. We have together embarked on the journey to transform HSE from the mind to the heart and have planted seeds of success. The journey has started and will need constant reminders before we could see tangible results.
Our safety performance for quarter one was not any better than Q1 last year. We suffered 12 incidents:
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Two Road Traffic incidents due to drivers falling asleep. One of them resulted in the death of a third party.
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Five falling incidents using ladders and stairs or falling from heights
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Five fingers and feet injuries due to lack of attention.
All above incidents were avoidable.
All had to do with lack of personal due care and attention.
It is a well known fact that no one comes to work with the
intention of hurting themselves or others. No one plans to
have incidents or mishaps. Yet, the attitude and behaviour
suggest otherwise.
People are deceived by their confidence and familiarity of the task at hand and as a result, loose attention and become complacent. We are all guilty of that at times. All those who had incidents were not doing the task for the first time or the tenth time. It was so common and routine to an extent it became a habit, which eventually led to incidents.
The challenge is on choosing to change the habit of carrying a task in a particular manner. Habits are therefore very powerful. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. With time, the chains of habit we develop become too small to be felt but too strong to be broken. Eventually, we become slaves to our constantly repeated acts. What we at first choose, at last control us.
As of today, please review your habits when you carry out routine activities, be it driving as you commute, movements of your hands, fingers and feet, your sitting posture or even your thinking pattern. Discuss with your colleagues and seek their support to observe you in action and give you feedback on your habits of doing tasks. You will be amazed of how much you can change, of course for better.
Let us all join efforts to make our days enjoyable and our place pleasant, healthy and safe.
Kind Regards,
Khalfan
bin Mohammed Al-Esry
Corporate HSE & SD Manager (MSEM)
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