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Providing A Safe Workplace
1.
Safety
Isn’t Easy
Applying safety in the workplace must not be understood as something easy
to accomplish. Many managers, who are unfamiliar with
managing safety, assume a safe workplace can occur
overnight. In most
companies with successful safety programs, their
success is normally built upon 3 to 5 years of
planning, hard work and continuous improvement. On the
other hand, it requires little to no effort to develop
a workplace that is disorderly and/or jeopardizes the
safety of employees.
As stated in the second law of thermodynamics,
disorder in the universe is always increasing.
Therefore, an unsafe workplace is inevitable, so
countermeasures must be applied to avoid
“inevitable” tragedies.
Establishing a safe or unsafe workplace under IBS is first explained in terms of making a right or wrong
decision. In either case, the chosen decision/goal of
safe or unsafe [right or wrong] is provided with the
resources and the consequences to support its intent,
as explained in the Quran; Allah says:
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“If any do wish for the transitory things (of
this life) We readily grant them--such things as We
will to such persons as We will: in the end have We
provided Hell for them: they will burn therein
disgraced and rejected.
Those who do wish for the (things of) the
Hereafter and strive therefore with all due striving
and have Faith they are the ones whose striving is
acceptable (to Allah).” Al-Israa
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Therefore,
if a Muslim owned company operated its business
against the principles of Islam, it will find its
benefits to be short lived and, most importantly,
without the embodiment of Ibadah. Without Ibadah, the
Muslim’s action is transitory, a deviation
from his true nature and of no value to him in the
Hereafter.
Secondly, a further illustration showing the difficulties
in creating a safe workplace is depicted in comparison
to our human behavior (Figure 2). On one side are
human actions that require no effort to obtain
transitory/worldly rewards (Unsafe/Hell), and on the
other side are actions that require much effort for
non-transitory/eternal rewards (Safe/Heaven).
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The
Prophet (PBUH) said, “The Paradise is surrounded by
hardships and the Hell-Fire is surrounded by
temptations.” Muslim
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Obtaining
a safe workplace [or Heaven, for that matter,]
requires a tremendous amount of effort and work to
incline toward what is virtuous and good. On the other
hand, it is easy for a person to succumb to
temptation, as it requires no effort or any form of
resistance or work. Similarly, an unsafe workplace
requires no effort.
2.
Other Cultural Disscussions:
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Faith
Equal to Removal of Harm.
3.
Technical Elements:
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Safety
Regulations
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Health
Regulation
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Operating
Procedures
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Work
Instructions
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Information
Technology
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