by Agung Aang on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 5:06pm
Yet, understanding people consciouseness to the issues of safety, most people are used to see,and understanding the underlying msg behind such jargons merely as a reminder to be carefull (in fact safety does not have direct correlation with any carefull and or careless), some of them are even worst, by digesting the msg merely as an organization or coy's "pride", as blindly campaign for sake of fulfilling a certain standard, or even maybe as much as their effort to win a certain bid-qualification where safety concern is one of eliminating factors. Most of them are used to forget that safety is a mind-set, safety is a behaviour, and safety is an action, anyway I dont want to elaborate further this phenomenon this time, maybe some other time.
This time I'd just like to invite all of your critical views in understanding and eventually responding to a certain quotes of "How to compromize safety requirement with cost efficiency?" first and foremost and "Is there a really compromizing sone between both aforementioned?". I saw this as become a never-end dialogues ever, especially for those who had been in control to manage both issues together, though this is quaite relevant to my friend who are now managing or dealing with fleet, be it as ship manager and or as owner operator. Hopes some of you may find this discussion as interesting as I did.
It has become no more secret if one says, safety will always come with a high cost. One logic consequence of a high standard safety requirement is cost burden. Sometime even in a certain case, safety will bring up a degree of redundancy toward overall system (configuration) that again will end-up with a high cost. Whilst in other hand as a Fleet Manager we have to be able in control of cost as a key success factor to stay competitive and stay exist in the thought industry competition. This is become very much relevant recently, where a ressession cloud are haunted in almost all industry not exclusively marine & shipping industry. Of which, it seems we do not have any other choices but implementing a radical approaches of cost efficiencies at all sectors to be able to stay operationally and costly excellent.
Firstly I would say that, may be I'm the one of those who does not believe there is a compromizing zone between safety requirement and cost efficiency, I'm the one who strongly believes that one (amongst others two) could not exist by neglecting others, for one kind of me, we do believes that there isn't such zone and area where we could compromizing safety for sake of cost efficiency. I myself will always believes safety abundant will always end-up with a tremendeously and very much costly disaster ever. Even though at the same time I do also have the same agreement with those who think that cost efficiency is an inevitable.
For me safety concern and cost consciousness are two different animals that are not impossible to get along, it will never crossing each others. Couple weeks back, one colleague of mine threw me a simple question "How much of a high standard hard hat (safety helmet) aproved by all safety standard will cost us each?" do you ever know what is the exact answer is? according to my colleague, he got a source that could sell those at Rp.25K Rups/each, before discount. Some time some of us might think those kind of PPE must be very much expensives, in fact it is not, for sure things may get definetely different if we come to a high standard safety supplier/provider (alike convenience stores), do not get shock if we will find a huge different in cost for the same things. This is just a small, simple exsample as to give you an idea that safety standard could be afforded for cheap by a certain different approach.
Afterall I sees, safety requirement and standard it self is not a kind of things worth to be compromized, but the way to achieve them are absolutely worth to be compromized. Our manner, our comfort, our convenience in fulfilling those standard and requirement is the one that is really worth to be compromized without sacrificing our cost efficiency approaches. Out of which I could see that both safety and cost efficiency could get along still, through a certain ways to manage them well without intercepting one into others at all time.
Nevertheless management approaches such as consistently in planning, executing, control and evaluating is key success factors to well translate the strategic issues between safety and cost consciouseness in to actions. Again if one still stubborn poking my nose with question of "Which one come to your priority?" I would be confident enough to give an answer that safety is my priority, as a prudent manager we have to buy an insurrance policy don't we?...yes, all given cost for safety standard would become our premium that we got to pay in order to get the assurrances of safe working practices at our working environment, at least that is as of me.
March, 2009
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