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These topics dig in to see
the critical role from
health and safety angle
which illustrate the collective
responsibility of all to ensure
businesses stay afloat which
also benefit third parties at the
long run especially at these
uncertain times that lay ahead
in wait for global business due
to the covid-19 pandemic.
The “Machine vs. Tools”
analogy being used to highlight
the tips for saving business
was a phrase utilized
by one operative from one of
my previous experience, the
operator referred to the line
management team as “machine”
and then denoted to
the shop-floor operators as
“tools”. At first I seem lost and
it was obvious to the operators
I did not get the message
which made them laugh and
one of the operator explained,
the “machine” vs. “tools”
phrase meaning the shop-floor
operators are used without
caring for their personal
safety and wellbeing and from
their perspective ‘safety’ is
a kind of special tool used to
window dress the pathetic
situation. These are the kinds
of mistrust commonly found in some business when the
safety and wellbeing of workers
are neglected for solely
production or profit making.
Tools are things that help
you to do your job or
achieve result, or a person
who is used or controlled by
another person.
Machine
is a piece of equipment
designed to do a particular
job. Machine Tools: tools for
cutting or shaping metal,
wood driven by a machine.
Wear and tear rate of any machine
tools increases when required
minimum maintenance
frequency is not adhere to in
accordance to standard operating
maintenance practice or
machine tools maintenance
manual instruction, which
lead those managing the tools
into a false safety engineering
believe that the tools can
continue in operation and be
discarded and replaced whenever
its usefulness is no longer
forthcoming, failing to understand
that the effectiveness
of tools are tied to adhering
to the maintenance guideline
which prolong the life of
the tools, added value with
cost effectiveness which may
also quickly become a way of
thinking that will ultimately
affect the machine setting in
quick machine inefficiency
and deterioration.
That is the exact situation
businesses find themselves
when system failed to take
into consideration the safety
and wellbeing of its workforce
resulting in business gradually
failing is likened to the tools
seen as less important to the
machine and therefore denied
maintenance as required which
slowly the same mind set will
affect the machine. These
become dangerous and create
a toxic work environment
once a section of the workforce
(operator) mindset descend to
these level of thought and in
most cases the line managers
are aware but simply don’t
care or sometimes subtly down
played it and result to a divide
and rule method.
This state of affairs is also
one of the factors that trigger
stressful working condition
with moral and motivation
low, setting an unsafe conditions
and behaviors where
business objective is no
longer a team pursuit and goal
oriented by all but seen by a
segment of the workforces as
a one sided business relationship
and some management
self interest for profit making
through an unethical conduct
and this unsafe behavior slowly
impacting the “machine”
wear and tear where part of
the profit are not plunged in
to care for the maintenance
of the machine tools as well,
just as the tools maintenance was neglected to be discarded
with a replacement solution
upper most in the wrong
direction so will head count
reduction be uppermost as a
solution when business begins
to fail once it become obvious
workers pool can no longer be
sustained, the management
will resort in sacrificing the
already disgruntled workforce
through the same flawed line
management who themselves
created this situation in the
first place thereby saving their
job and self interest which is
only a short time measures to
sacrifice the workers and save
the numbers, has the business
continues without retracting
its wrongful machine tools
maintenance care/ or workers
safety and wellbeing policies
on a cliff edge, the business
is doomed for a soon free fall,
maybe the business board
may realize too late and begins
to search for an emergency
safety net.
Line management who
are supposed to be business
leaders do not listen
or consider the safety and
wellbeing of their workers,
they will soon learn to see
business declining.
When business leaders failed
to comply or respect an agreed
and established management
system objective and strategy,
but taking any of the success
and passing the buck to the
subordinate worker, that is
when workers begin to lose
confidence in the leadership
and management system.
During one of my survey
on ‘occupational stress and
the impact’ an unusual survey
finding was made and from
my previous work experience,
workers are willingly to
conceal the implication of the
boss wrongful orders to the
boss when things begin to go
wrong. This is not necessarily
the right thing to do but
because the boss doesn’t listen
and consider their safety
and wellbeing of his workers,
further undermining the business
interest by their action
and inaction.
“People work for a decent
wage, but shall go the extra
mile for praise, recognition
and reward”
—Dale Carnegie.
When operator perceives production
interest is considered
well above their safety and
wellbeing which also begins
to impact on a critical production
ingredient ‘training’, also
neglected with no innovative
idea or sustaining operational
equipments, while management
looks for flimsy business
excuse to fly round the globe,
continuing with the series of
errors that brought business
to its sorry state with false
mindset that tools can easily be
discarded and replaced while
forgetting that it takes time to
build experience and team.
Machine cannot produce
without necessary tools, tools
are necessary to ensure machine
production lines run.
Machine Tools interact in
daily operation to bring out the
best of every machine and her
product, without the tools the
machine cannot be manipulated
to improve on occasional
set-back which keep production
line running and save
money by driving efficiencies.
Machine Tools care and
maintenance like the workers
safety and well-being is
as equally important as the
management and business
interest survival. The secondary
coercion of machine tools
and worker interest is not for
the long time system benefit for
the business goal. Tools are the
accessories that keep the machine
production line running.
Therefore, in order to keep the
machine operating optimally,
the tools maintenance must be
timely conducted and should be
integrated into system objective
and business goal strategy
Tips to save business a fall
out of the article which senior
level of the group should be
the drivers:
• Use and distribution of human
resource idea for effective
conformity to management
system adopted, must ensure
the system is strictly adhered
to, respected and complied
with by all (the entire team are
the frontline internal customers)
from top to bottom
and must not been seen as
a compliance for the bottom
ranks only.
• Leadership is essential to
the success of any business
as clearly stated by all known
system management practices;
therefore leadership must be
seen to be demonstrated in
such a way that leaves no one
in doubt.
• Leadership must continually
advocate the importance
of the entire team and ensure
its line management team
follow through with due diligence
in so doing building occupationally
friendly environment
with internal tracking
mechanism.
• Performance base issue
should be made transparent
with companywide standard of
measurement established within
the system, which should
not be left for line supervision
manager discretion which
often is skewed or manipulated
to his/her predetermined
result based on personal greed
tied loyalty above loyalty to
the growth and interest of the
system or business which often
erode the business vision and
objective.
• Fairness when seen to be
implemented leave little or no
room for bad feeling in reward
and recognition or any other
form of benefit that drives
innovative or creative thinking
resulting in smart thinkers
that upheld meritocracy and
not mediocrity. These are the
game changers in any business
that help the business to adapt
when the market changes.
We are still in the festivities
of a year that
is ending and another that
begins. We never imagined
that 2020 was going to be as
we have lived it: a pandemic
that doesn’t end.
We started this 2021 very
different from what we might
think. We don’t know what to
propose as goals because everything
will depend on what
happens with the pandemic.
We know that in all countries
there are many sick
people, many people dead
as a result of the pandemic,
many people without work
and economies heading for
recession. They tell us that
the vaccines will already be
at the beginning of the year,
but they will take a long time.
It’s possible a year or more for
the entire population to be
vaccinated.
We are left thinking: what
happened so that what we are
experiencing is happening.
A lot of science and a lot of
technology and we are in this
situation. We need to think
about what we are and what
we do as human beings.
What has been the development
of humanity so that we
have reached this situation?
a) We are going to see the
development of socio-political
relations.
b) Let’s see the development
of science.
If we start with the first human
groups, over there with
the invention of writing, we
have little information about
the remains found and about
their conservation.
Let’s think about human
groups from the transition
from collectors to producers.
With production we can think
of human settlements. We
can consider this stage for the
fourth millennium B.C. Here
we talk about communal property.
People defeated in wars
become slaves and are the ones
who do the heavy lifting.
The division of History by
age is known to us, a division
that is made according
to major events. In the
Ancient Ages, great cultures
such as China, India, Greece,
Persia and others developed.
The Ancient Age is considered
from the appearance
of Scripture until the fall of
the Western Roman Empire,
about 4,000 years.
The Middle Age is characterized
by the feudal regime:
those who have nothing are
the servants and the Lords.
We speak in the Middle Ages
of a great war, of the Crusades,
back in the 11th century
A. C. The interest of the Crusades
was commercial.
In the Middle Age, cities
emerged as the group of human
beings not dependent on
the fiefdom and with a greater
vision of the world.
From the twelfth century
the decline of the feudal system
began and the National
States emerged. The rebellions
began. The Russian state
arises with the liquidation of
Mughal rule in 1440.
We still speak as the basis of
the social system: servitude.
With the end of the absolute
monarchy and the fall of the
Eastern Roman Empire, the
Modern Age began.
With the development of
cities and central governments
we have the development
of commerce. The
rebirth of the Greco-Roman
culture, in the 15th and 16th
centuries, originates the
rebirth of that culture, the
Renaissance. The renaissance
meant: development of
science and art and the consideration
of human beings as
the center of life.
Here we talk about: Leonardo
da Vinci. (1452-1519) ·
Michelangelo Buonarroti.
(1475-1564) · Rafael Sanzio.
(1483-1520) · Titian. (1477) -1576)
· Machiavelli. (1469-1527) ·
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
(1547-1616) · Miguel de Montaigne.
(1533-1592) · William
Shakespeare. (1564-1616)
Along with the arts and letters
are the expeditions, which
were made from the development
of scientific knowledge.
Contact from Europe to America
is coming. The development
of relations with the East
arises through navigation.
The culmination of the
Renaissance brings us The
Enlightenment in the 18th
century. A work is published
with all the knowledge called
the Encyclopedia; it was
published in 28 volumes.
Among the main collaborators
we have Diderot, D’Alembert,
Holbach, Helvetius, Voltaire,
Montesquieu and Rousseau.
The French Revolution, the
English Revolution and the
American Independence are
considered as the events that
mark the beginning of the
Contemporary Age.
We are already facing events
that will mark the development
of States and the decline
in the power of monarchies,
becoming constitutional
monarchies. The world at the
beginning of the Contemporary
Age develops between
the domination of the new
conquered lands and the dismemberment
of the absolute
monarchies.
The development of sciences,
with experimentation and
mathematics, for any knowledge.
Today we also work with
a qualitative and quantitative
method: the holistic model.
With a new world, with science
and greater commerce,
comes the domain of goods
and the ideas of ownership of
goods: whether the State or
individuals.
Among the great scientists
we can mention the following:
Einstein- Concepts of space
and time · Heisenberg - Uncertainty
Principle · Pauli - Principle
of exclusion · Niels Bohr
- Principle of Complementarity
· Planck and Sochrödinger
- Subatomic World Relations
· Dilthey - Psychology and
History · Wundt, Brentano,
James and Piaget - Psychology
· Weber - Sociology ·
Wittgenstein - Philosophy of
Science · Bertalanffy - Biology
· Bertrand Russell - Mathematics
· Habermas- Interest
· Morin - The translation of
the world · Bunge - Physics
- symbolic representation of
objects · Prigogine - Dissipative
structures - open systems ·
J. S. Bell - Structure of Matter ·
Bohm - Involved Order · Thom
- Morphogenesis · Lazslo -
Productive tensions · Stapp
- Organic Universe · Sheldrake
- The Morphic Resonance ·
Dobbs - Theory of positrons.
Nowadays world has a
great development but what
happened so that with so
much science and technology
a virus has stopped world
society. If we start to analyze
all the development that
we have achieved, there’s
something that remains in the
pipeline: we have not worked
for understanding among human
beings.
We expand the
physical world, we develop
commerce to have goods, we develop science to know
where we are, but how to live
so that each human being
has a decent space; we have
not done. We say that we
have a knowledge society, but
that knowledge is for a few
because the system of possession
of wealth and the benefit
of science is for 10% of the
world’s population.
In addition, what we have
in abundance is misinformation
through social networks.
Political systems deal with
human beings only for profit.
The search for the good for all
living beings doesn’t exist.
Why has the pandemic
generated by the Coronavirus
not been controlled with so
much science and technology?
As easy as the following:
It meant cost to governments
and discovering the vaccine
would not generate as much
profit as the marketing mad
rush where the infrastructure
was already built.
In addition, each ruler is
more occupied in perpetuating
themselves in having
power, for all the perks that
they achieve, than seeing
that the population has the
necessary well-being. Now the
economy is stopped because
the workers are infected and
the benefit that the governments
were seeking can’t be
achieved. There is a recession
on the horizon and now they
do want a fast vaccine to keep
production going. That they
think about the welfare of human
beings is a utopia.
It’s the same with education;
governments have the right to
say: this is legal and this is not.
The point is that they make
the knowledge-oriented curricula
that can maintain their
power. It’s a domesticating
education. The coronavirus
is going to disappear because
it has stopped the economic
gains of the powerful and now
they cry for the well-being of
the citizens, I mean, of the
workers. The problems arise
because all development is
for the goods and wealth of
a few. From what we have
seen, throughout History,
coexistence is something that
has not been worked on. Now
with people confined to their
homes we see a lot of violence.
We have to learn to live with
others. The benefits of coexistence
are:
a) The care of our space of life;
the planet Earth, because we
all live there.
b) The opportunity for education
for all because that way
we can all be responsible for
our well-being.
c) Fewer conflicts because we
would resolve differences
for the good of all parties.
d) Production according to the
needs of human beings and
stop producing just to profit.
e) Health for all because we
would have less expenses for
it by stopping the mad rush
of working to buy and buy.
f) The goods would be enough
for everyone to produce for
what we actually need.
We have to educate
ourselves in coexistence
because it does generate
well-being for everyone.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Brom, J. (2017). Esbozo de Historia Universal: Grijalbo.
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