Application of the Concept "People-oriented" to Improve the Working Team Safety Construction

Working team is the grass-roots organization in the enterprise, and as the vast majority of working team, blue-collar workers engaged in manual labor which is more dangerous, and are required to comply with the safety and health regulation, on the other hands, workers are also the main sufferers in industrial accidents. Therefore, team safety construction becomes the key part of the enterprise safety management, which will be directly attributable to the stability of enterprise, which's one critical goal is protecting workers from danger. In this paper, situation and shortcoming of working team in safety construction will be analyzed, and, it points out the focus of team safety construction is applying 'people-oriented' concept in management and mastering the 'Man factor' based on '4M' theory. And then, as the focus, the writer will highlight several approaches to strengthen working team safety construction by establishing safety responsibility, assessment system, conducting safety education, improving initiative of foreman and providing condition of work safety. ect. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology(Beijing), McGill University and University of Wollongong.