How was production safety done in ancient times?

There is no way to explain the specifics. We can only know it from some idioms and proverbs, such as

What goes up leads to imitation

There was a popular style in the Jin Dynasty that talked about pomp and circumstance. Duke Wen of Jin took the lead in correcting the bad habit of showing off lavishness by adopting a simple and frugal style. He did not wear expensive textiles when wearing clothes, and did not eat more than two kinds of meat when eating. Soon after, people in Jin began to wear coarse clothes and eat brown rice.

Enlightenment: Leadership is critical. In the work of safety production, it is necessary to implement the main responsibility of the enterprise for safety production and clarify the safety responsibilities of the main person in charge of the enterprise. The same is true. If the operators of an enterprise always put safety production first, put social responsibility first, and insist on producing under the premise of safety, then the enterprise's safety production work can be effectively promoted and truly achieved. Reality.

The ant nest broke the embankment

In ancient times, there was a village on the bank of the Yellow River. In order to prevent flooding, the villagers built a long embankment. One day, an old farmer accidentally discovered that the ant nest suddenly increased in size. The old farmer thought to himself: Will these ant nests affect the safety of the long embankment? The old farmer was going back to the village to report, and met his son on the way. After hearing this, the old farmer's son said disapprovingly: With such a solid long embankment, are you still afraid of a few small ants? Then he took the old farmer and went to the fields together. That night it was windy and rainy, and the water in the Yellow River surged. The roaring river water seeped from the ant nest, then spurted, and finally the long embankment burst, flooding a large number of villages along the coast.

Enlightenment: If you are not careful about small things, it will lead to disaster. The same is true for production safety. Sometimes forgetting to wear a safety helmet or missing a small screw can lead to a major accident. Therefore, in everything we do, we must look at the big picture and start small, and we must not let go of any detail. When unsafe hidden dangers are discovered, rectification must be carried out quickly to avoid accumulation of problems and capsizing in shallow ditches.

Mr. Haohao

In the Later Han Dynasty, Sima Hui never talked about other people's shortcomings. When talking to others, he always said "good" regardless of good or bad things. Once, someone asked him if he was safe, and he replied, "Okay." Someone told him that his son was dead, and he still replied, "Very good." His wife scolded him and said, "People thought you were virtuous, so they told you. Why did you say yes when you heard people say that your son was dead?" Sima Hui said, "Things like what you said are also very good. Ah! ”

Inspiration: Mr. Nice Guys are often seen in our lives. However, those who are engaged in safety production must remember not to be a good gentleman and not to follow the crowd. Because production safety must not be sloppy in the slightest, and being a good gentleman in the face of potential accident risks may lead to accidents.

The mantis stalks the cicada

There is an elm tree in the garden, and there is a cicada on the tree. The cicada flapped its wings and screamed, preparing to suck some cool dew, but it didn't know that a praying mantis was behind it. The mantis stretched out its two machete-like forearms, intending to catch the cicada and eat it. When the mantis was about to catch the cicada, he didn't know that the oriole was right behind it. The oriole stretched its neck to eat the mantis. When the oriole was about to peck at the mantis, it didn't know that there was a child holding a slingshot under the elm tree. He stretched the rubber band and was aiming at it. When the child wanted to shoot the oriole, he didn't know that there was a deep pit in front of him and a tree stump behind him.

Enlightenment: Enterprise development is the main theme, and the pursuit of economic benefits by enterprises is also the need of the market economy. However, the fable of the mantis stalking the cicada tells us: when people pursue immediate benefits, they tend to ignore the dangers hidden behind them; in the process of production and operation, they tend to pursue production speed and ignore the operating status of production; when it comes to production input and safety In terms of investment, it is often easy to consider increasing investment in production to maximize benefits, while ignoring safety investment.

King Xuan is good at shooting

King Xuan of Zhou likes archery, and he also likes others to praise him for his extraordinary arm strength and ability to use a strong bow. In fact, King Xuan of Zhou's bow could be drawn with the strength of only three stones. King Xuan of Zhou handed this bow to the people around him to show it around. The people on the left and right tried to pull it, but they only pulled the bow halfway, pretending that it could not be pulled, and said complimentarily: "This bow cannot be pulled without the strength of nine stones. Who else can use this bow except the king?" Where is Zhang Gong?" King Zhou Xuan was very proud after hearing this. Although the bow he used only required the strength of three stones, until his death he still thought that the bow he used needed the strength of nine stones. Three stones are the reality, nine stones are the false name. King Xuan of Zhou liked false fame and was divorced from reality.

Enlightenment: Safety production work cannot be based on false claims.

Some companies are superficial in their work on safety production. In order to cope with the safety inspection, they carry out outstanding actions, put up slogans, hang banners, and write reports. The formality is very good. As a result, the inspection is over and the safety work is relaxed. Such a false name is harmful to oneself, and inspection itself has become a form, which is a false name.

Xunzi, an ancient thinker, said that "prevention is the highest, rescue is the second, and warning is the lowest." "Prevention" mainly refers to advance education, which is a kind of self-restraint and soft restraint beforehand; "rescue" and "prevention" mainly rely on inspection and supervision, using recording and condemnation methods to urge correction, which is mandatory and is a kind of External constraints and hard constraints during and after the event. "Rescue" and "prevent" are not the best policies, but only the last resort for safety management.