Efforts to prevent accidents in the workplace is a program of activities that can not be delayed any longer, these efforts will be realized only if every company / organization can undertake the planning and implementation of occupational safety and health programs in the workplace each – each. Now increasingly recognized that without earnest effort within the company and other workplaces to conduct accident prevention will result in losses for the company itself.
And efforts are made is based on a sense of the nature of humanity to the safety of workers and economic pertimbagan companies that will ultimately benefit for themselves. At a corporate overview of the losses will be incurred as a result of a work accident include:
a) Losses in the form of medical expenses and maintenance expenses and replacement cost loss for the patient or victim.
b) Losses in the form of administrative expenses, because it must also investigate carefully about the causes and consequences of the accident, and the investigation was meant to be assigned a particular employee or officer to do so.
c) The losses in production, due to the occurrence of an accident is certainly going to invite problems for other people, even some people had to be involved in relief efforts for the victims and deliver sipenderita hospital. And as a result the production process will be disrupted because of the employee’s time consumed to handle the victim
d) The difficulty to find and educate the workforce longer replacement will be tasked with replacing workers who have an accident. This situation will have an impact on the decrease in production output, especially if sikorban is a worker who could face the machines or other heavy work is important and there is no other power in his stead.
e) Losses as a result of a decrease in morale, because after the occurrence of an accident is likely to lead to disability or death. These conditions will negatively impact large enough for the other workers, they will be disturbed / mentally depressed, due to a terrible accident for other workers will affect the spirit of the operation.
f) Kerugan on machinery / equipment production. As a result of an accident will happen anyway possibility of damage to the victim’s machine used. Even if the machine is not damaged but it is certain that the machine will not immediately be used for a while, because it will be the important evidence for the investigation of the causes and consequences of accidents.
Thus the machine will be dead capital in the event of unemployment, especially if the machine is damaged surely there must also repair costs. And the cost of repair would be more expensive when the damage occurred on the machines are expensive. Based on a study (investigation) that such losses will occur is greater than the cost to businesses of accident prevention in the workplace, and a leader within the company should be fully responsible for the carry job.
Philosophy of Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational Health and Safety has meaning and purpose that can be described in the following formulation:
“Assuring the state, the integrity and perfection of both physical and spiritual human being as well as the work and culture, focused on the welfare of society in general and human beings in particular.”
The philosophy formulated briefly and clearly and always should be used as the basis and starting point of each safety effort. In the philosophy of the covered concepts and philosophical, social, technical and socio-economic.