Raising Risk Awareness: Electronic Application for Komatsu Safety

This report examines the application of electronic systems to enhance risk awareness and safety education within Komatsu Australia Limited. The study focuses on integrating the Komatsu 8 Golden Rules (K8GR) and the Komatsu Feel Safety Program (KFSP) into an electronic application. The aim is to improve employee knowledge, hazard identification, and the implementation of safety controls. The report outlines the industry and organizational backgrounds, identifying the benefits of electronic application integration, and the identified problems in the existing system. The project proposes a series of questions related to both the K8GR and KFSP to be incorporated into the application. The methodology involves a review of the existing safety programs and the development of an electronic application to be introduced within Komatsu branches across Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. The report also details the conference paper format and requirements for a presentation on the project.

Using electronic applications to raise
risk awareness and increase safety
education

The aim of this paper is to understand the various processes related to risk
mitigation, risk management, risk assessment and mitigation through the use
and application of Komatsu Australia golden rules and electronic application.
The paper analyses the various aspects of K8GR (Komatsu Australia golden
rules) and the (Komatsu Feel safety program) KFSP and the study undertaken
emphasizes on determination of how the electronic application is to be
developed and introduced in to the pre-existent infrastructure which is integral
with the environment with the specified application development

Industry Background
 The industry has used and manufactured a range of wheel loaders,
excavator, backhoes, drum trucks and a spectrum of safety devices to
enhance the impact and diminish the safety issues of their services.
 Through technical and financial services, this industry has helped many
other companies in Australia and nearby countries to develop a risk free,
hazard less work environment within their respective infrastructures.

Industry Background
 Over the decades, the companies working under the norms and regulation
of earth moving and mining industry.
 They have drastically increased their social, economic, financial and
sociocultural framework in order to succeed with their businesses into the
expanded and extended boundaries.

Organisation background
In the year of 1965, an infamous organization
from Japanese.
Dealing with construction equipment, the
company made its way to the Australian
market but with a high quality service and
equipment delivery – it made a mark in the
Australian market.

Organisation background
 It provides various earth moving tools and devices. In addition, it also
provides technological and financial services to its clients. it provides high
technology engines, remote monitoring systems and the maintenance
services.
 The organization strives to deliver high health and well-being standards that
is based out of shared values, persistence and action taking towards a
common goal and complying the employees working in the organisation
with safe and non- hazardous behaviours.
 Everything that Komatsu as an organisation does and performs, may it be
corporate social responsibility or employee skill development and training –
the organisation maintain a safe and secure approach towards positive
health outcomes, both physically and psychologically

TOOLS AND MACHINERY BY KOMATSU

Safety in Komatsu
The organizational culture strives
 To improve safety and compliance, awareness amongst the employees of
Komatsu Australia Limited and for this,
 The 5S system has been incorporated into the Komatsu Group’s way of
being Komatsu in order to improve knowledge and practice amongst the
employees, in compliance with the Komatsu Australia Limited (KAL)
policies and regulations.

The Feel Safe program
 The 5 S of the ‘feel safe program’ of a Komatsu are
a) sorting the problems and the strategies for each problem.
b) set in order (that is the prioritization of the programs).
c) Standardizing the protocols,
d) Shine
e) Sustenance

Importance of Electronic Application
Integration
The study identifies the following problems as an indication to Electronic
Application –
 Lack of communication between the employees regarding safe behaviours
 Knowledge gap between different employees regarding safe behaviours
 communication gaps between the employees and the clients due to lack of
technology.

Importance of Electronic Application
Integration
Komatsu Australia Limited identifies the electronic application integration to
aid and guide the employees and visitors comply with :-
 Eye wash stations, spill kit sessions and the first aid services.
 The electronic communication with the incorporation of electronic devices
and electronic application - has been attempted by KAL organisation by
increasing their quality of information technology connectivity through
more dynamic and new age desktop, laptop, mobile phones and the tablets.