International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 03 | Mar-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 3622 FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE SAFETY PERFORMANCE & STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTION OF SAFETY CULTURE IN POWER PLANT Vikas Kumar Jha 1 , Ranjeet Kumar 2 1 M.tech Student, Industrial safety, SKSITS, Indore, India 2 Dean, SKSITS, (Indore), India --------------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT - Working in power plant is most critical in terms of its potentials for accidents due to the diversified nature of activities coupled with the contractor unskilled labour force. Maintaining safety management for contractor is a challenging task of any organization because of the high severity of injuries because of the presence of unskilled, illiterate and migratory workers having low safety awareness among workers make them more vulnerable to accidents. The year wise trending of safety indices value shows that total contract employees worked, near miss accident reported, safety activity number, have a direct association with the safety performance. Near miss accidents reporting system helps to prevent accidents by identifying reporting, analyzing & correcting the causes of near misses & safety promotional activities as a part of accident prevention programme resulted in improving safety awareness that depicts good safety culture of the organization and helps for further improvement .This paper describes the factors that influence safety performance & the innovative techniques for employee participation in different safety promotional and awareness programme that promote safety culture in the work place Keywords- Safety Management, Safety Indices, Safety Awareness, Near Miss Accident, Contractor Worker, Safety Culture, Safety Budget, Safety Activity. 1. INTRODUCTION The scenario of work places is constantly changing & influencing due to increased reliance on sub contractors & transient workers which create a serious challenge with regards to Industrial safety for an organization. All hazards & challenges of industrial safety in a power plant are well defined, properly recognized & understood by all regular employees of plant, but during shutdown & for major activities various contractor labor force employed to execute different types of work activities. These contractor workers transiently employed for one phase of project by some agency for a while and soon after completion of that phase move to other phase with some new contractor & so on, these contractors have to settle these temporary workers who are quite not appropriate for the job They do not recognize the risks involved & preventive measures which they themselves have to take in order to safe guard them from different types of hazards. These contractor workers comprise of unskilled labors their lack of awareness of safety measures make them more vulnerable to accidents. Safety in a industry is based on the combination of three pillars- the person, their behavior & their environment. When all three pillars are combined forms a strong safety culture which is the base for accident prevention. For preventing the accidents implementation of right job for right person policy, strict supervision, proper procedure adherence & training is required. 2. DEFINITIONS-  Safety- It is consider as freedom or protection from danger/ harm/ hazard & accident. Safety is an organized activity for minimizing human loss/ economic loss & sociological loss.  Hazard- It is considered as inherent intrinsic property of material or condition or situation environmental with the potential to cause injury or harm  Domino concern: - Any operation & process which have significant potential to trigger or multiply the risk associated with the activity which can create potential emergency condition.  Man days Lost- These are charges in days of worker earning capacity which is lost due to lost time injury which include permanent disability or partial disability. In Appendix A (part A & part B) of IS 3786:1983 listed scheduled charges which describes percentage of loss of earning capacity & its equivalent man days lost  Man hours- man hours worked is the total number of employees (managerial, supervisory, technical, professional, clerical including contractor worker labor) hours worked by all employees in the Industrial premises.