ZERO Accident -How to achieve?What Pro-Active & Preventive Actions to take?

The recent express bus accident along the Ipoh Highway with 10 deaths and many more injured really make us wonder (at least for Ramli) can we really make our Bus Journey Safe especially when our children travel all the time when they come back for the Holidays from their Universities or Schools away from Home!
LIke my eldest daughter,Nur Amirah she will travel from Kuala Trengganu to Shah Alam everytime there is a U Break for the holidays and the logical choice of travel will be by Express Bus like Trans Natoonal,Sani Express,Mutiara and many other bus express companies.
When I asked her to travel in the morning or daylight for her next trip she still likes to take the night bus bcoz its cooling,beat the traffic jams,can have a good sleep and she knows by Subuh she is already in Shah Alam.However I caution her to travel in the morning for this initial safety measures since night travelling is not yet fully guaranteed when you have bus drivers saying they fall asleep while driving and that coz the accidents like the tragic one in Ipoh recently.How can we tolerate such indiscipline and unprofessional approach towards the driving profession.Can you allow your airline pilots to say the same thing when they take off or wants to land their planes?If they are driving their ownselves then its their life at stake BUT when you have over 40 or even 300+ passengers like the aeroplane then PLEASE make sure all drivers or pilots abide to the strictest rule and discipline of making sure all passengers safety travel are at their best control.
So just to make sure these proactive and preventive mesasures to make TRAVEL SAFE,Ramli have list out some important points (for your consideration and ground and air travel cos safety measures)
Pro-Active & Preventive Measures to make travel safe with almost ZERO Accidents:
1.Drivers must be medically fit and pass the “driver’s safety checks” before allowed to drive their buses.
2.All buses must passed all safety check points based on the Safety Check List
3.Safety clearance must need multiple parties approval and cross checks eg.Driver,Administration Dept,Quality&Safety Assurance Unit Personnel
4.Safety clearance from Road Transport Dept about Today’s Weather and Road Conditions
5.Passengers being brief about what they can do if they witness any wrong doings or improper bus driving by drivers concerned.Can press the STOP BUS ALARM BUTTON if necessary along the journey
6.Install CCTV at all driver’s place to monitor driver alertness,quick response and safe driving at all times of the day
7.Stop Night Time Travel or allow Night Time Travel for only few passengers excluding children and senior citizens.
8.and many more….
Risk Management is good but without discipline and continual improvement in our processes we can “be attack” by sudden problems and can cause great loss to lives,assets and confidence of the people to our products and services.
The airline companies have done very well with their almost ZERO air accidents in as many hundred thousands of flights they do along the year/s and that is because of the strictest measures they impose on airline safety assurance to all airline cos in the world and they do not tolerate for any such infringements or “short cut” measures for safety and quality.
The bus companies like in Malaysia must do the same and only with the strong and determine leadership shown from the Transport MInistry for all matters related to travel safety can we as passengers or commuters be assured that travel is in good safe hands and we can rest n relax in our journey from one point to another all the time.Inshallah.
In Allah SWT we trust our fate BUT all man made errors must be stopped at once and we must achieve ZERO ERRORS in all our work all the time.
To know more about ZERO Defect and its importance,please read Philip Crosby books-He is the ZD Guru after all.
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Ramli Abu Hassan
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