Horseplay - A Safety Concern
ISO 45001 INTERNAL AUDIT PART 1
Horseplay - A Safety Concern
We might’ve seen a lot of horseplay at
our workplaces. People pushing each other,
throwing tools, pulling chairs,
scaring others with loud noise, etc. If asked, the
reason given is, “we were just having
fun”. This reason is a poor excuse for possible
accidents, which could be slight or
could be serious. Far from being humorous, horseplay
is unsafe, stupid and may cause
serious consequences. It is thoroughly out of place at
a worksite. It is a violation of
company safety rules, lead to many incidents and every effort should be made to
discourage it.
Most of us have a good sense of humor
and enjoy a good laugh. But a sense of humor
and horseplay are not really as
closely related, as they might seem. Horseplay often
carries many of the characteristics of
cruelty, and you can add irresponsibility and
immaturity to that too, sometime it
will become workplace violence.
There is probably one on every job;
the practical joker, the guy who likes to make a
bid for laughs and attention by
playing jokes on his fellow workers. He thinks he’s
funny and clever. Unfortunately he can
usually find a few fellow employees unwise
enough to encourage him. Actually this
fellow is dangerous. His horseplay is a hazard
to all his fellow employees. His
foolishness should not be tolerated by any of you.
If you have this sort working with you, it is
your responsibility to talk to him
confidentially. Try to make him
realize that such acts can result in serious injury to
others. If you emphasize that
horseplay is unfair, stupid, and treacherous, any
reasonable person will cooperate in
avoiding it.
Organizations may have clear policy on
horseplay to avoid such activities at workplace and all employees to be
trained/educated the consequences of horseplay at workplace.
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