Safety First

The term of "safety first" is not something new in our daily life. Slogans like this are very positives because the value of education to the public that safety was number one, and timeliness, service, etc. are in large unspecific numbers although still it is important. But what the industry really make "safety" became a number one? Industrial Performance: Quality, Productivity, Safety, Cost. Which needs to be prioritized?

There are so many methods that can be used to measure the performance of an industry. Factors or indicators were many and varied as PQCDSM etc., but of the many variations that there are four indicators that can be spelled often appear or be involved in any method of Quality, Productivity, Safety, and Cost. Briefly mentioned that the performance will go up if the quality, productivity, and safety go up and cost down. For more details will be explained as follows:

Quality
Talking about quality; rejects, defects, human error, an error occurs and the work that often affect the quality of course. Raw materials that do not meet the standards often require special treatment that deviates from the SOP. Quality degradation is a dangerous threat to the survival of the company. Quality that can lead to consumer disappointment turned to competitors' products.

Productivity
Productivity is one of the aspects that determine the success of an industry or company in the competitive world of business is getting tougher. Productivity levels are achieved is an indicator of how efficiently a company in combining its economic resources at this time.

Safety
A poor safety conditions often associated with fatigue, environment irregular factory, the factory is dirty, noisy, polluted, full of waste, risk of fire, do not meet the nutritional calories work, health, environment and so on. Adverse conditions such as this can cause accidents and occupational diseases.

Cost
Swelling in the number of lines cost a lot of work going on. In addition to the price fluctuations of raw materials originating from external influences, internal activity is the cause of the swelling cost. This can reduce the marketability competitive. Good quality and low price is the emphasis that is generally done by investors on corporate managers. That is, there should be no cost to come out with unplanned.

Now the question arises, which of these indicators are the most important and how its priorities? The answer to these questions will certainly vary depending on the culture of the person or company. However, please note here that the world's leading automotive companies are to be the center by a variety of industries and arguably become the number 1 company in its field has made safety as their top priority. In detail they are sort of the most priority to the safety, quality, productivity, cost. Yes, indeed, safety is the top spot ahead of even quality, productivity, and cost. This is in line with the slogan "safety first" that often appear in industrial environments in the Indonesian language means "prioritizing safety" whose meaning is to place safety above all else. Is it solely for the purpose of raising the image of humanity in the company so the company got a good image? The answer probably is not. Indeed, in safety there are human values ​​must take precedence, but on the other hand turned out to increase safety will also influence the form of improvements in other indicators such as quality, productivity, and save cost and are now widely proven by many companies. Perhaps this is why most prioritized safety, because the "lift" safety indicators other then the "automatic" will also "lifted" and overall performance will improve.

-Mohd Fahmi (13A)