• Dr U K Chakrabarty

In any progressive organisation, Employees’ Safety Awareness is of paramount importance to ensure safety in operations. Information and knowledge gaps in critical issues have been the predominent causes of industrial accidents in the past. The issue assumes great significance particularly when we talk of implementation of pro-active Safety Management System in a petroleum processing plant or in a refinery. In order to maintain much needed safety awareness among employees and other workers, a Safety Awareness Survey was conducted in a process plant for a period of one month, initially among the operations employees working in different shifts in the plant. The survey objectives include recognizing the existing levels of safety awarenessover a range of critical safety issues, identifying the subject areas where exist any knowledge/information gap and suggesting ways and means to bridge them in order to ensure continual improvement in awareness level. Multiple choice questionnaire on the subjects relevant to plant safety was used for the survey. About more than 85% shift working employees across all age groups and from all the designations with varying degree of experiences were identified as Respondents. The responses were assessed both for positive score as well as for wrong answers.Results from Inter-shift as well as Intra-shift responses were analysed. Six scoring ranges have been chosen for the analysis with less than 50% is taken as ‘undesirable’ and a score of 90% and above is considered as ‘excellent’. Finally, inter-shift analysis has been used to prioritize the subject area based on the wrong answers recorded in each of the seven subject categories. Further training needs were identified based on the observations that information on emergency responses, siren system, mock-drills and fire fighting systems available in the plant, H2S and utility chemical safety and their emergency responses, hazardous area concepts, statutory requirements etc. seems to be somewhat inadequately known to the respondents. Survey recommendations were currently being implemented in the plant in a phased manner.

Safety Management System, emergency response, hazardous area, information gap.

"SAFETY AWARENESS SURVEY – A TOOL FOR EMPLOYEES’ TRAINING NEED ASSESSMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.377-380, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006068.pdf

"SAFETY AWARENESS SURVEY – A TOOL FOR EMPLOYEES’ TRAINING NEED ASSESSMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp377-380, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006068.pdf