SEASEP Impacts

SEASEP has been working to make a significant contribution to reducing high rates of accidental workplace fatalities in South East Asia.

This has been achieved through:

Developing a sustainable programme to builds capability and capacity to safely operate and maintain critical infrastructure
Enhancing workforce skills by providing access to quality, engineering-related training and education

Post-course surveys have been returned to demonstrate the impact of SEASEP in India and Indonesia following the completion of phase one of the programme.

Almost 3,700 students completed an initial examination during phase one, with a further 1,000 students given further training and a retest after failing to pass the first time.

While phase one of SEASEP can claim little direct impact on accidents of deaths in the populous nations of India (1.4 billion people) and Indonesia (276 million), the improving of skills, competence and safety are destined to allow a health and safety culture to spread from individuals and companies to entire industries, governments and other agencies.

These outcomes create a solid foundation that can be built upon with phase two, while other regions (The Philippines and Thailand) have now also joined the SEASEP programme.

Responses to post-course surveys show that the training offered mostly related directly to the respondent’s employment and were rated highly in terms of their impact on future employment prospects. Three out of every ten previously unemployed trainees have already found work in an area related to their training, with many trainees also moving forward to the next level of inspection engineering courses since the start of SEASEP.

Statistics

The following statistics have been collated from feedback surveys completed in India and Indonesia during phase one of the SEASEP programme.

The chart below shows that most of the companies that engaged with the programme had fewer than 50 employees.

The following chart demonstrates the need for SEASEP, with 37% reporting that workplace accidents had occurred that resulted in injury.

This chart shows that, were accidents had occurred, 21% had not made any changes as a result.

However, following SEASEP training in India and Indonesia, 94% of respondents reported improved safety and inspection activities as a result.

The SEASEP training was also shown to have a direct impact on company health and safety culture, with all respondents reporting that international health and safety practices and inspection standards had been encouraged to be adopted as a result of the training.

SEASEP placed a real focus on training women across South East Asia, with many of them already reporting a good level of educational attainment ahead of the training.

Of the female candidates trained, the majority chose to take the CSWIP 3.0 training.

Looking further into the details for each region, nearly half of Indonesia's SEASEP scholars came from the Riau Islands.

India's scholars, meanwhile, were shown to mainly come from Tamil Nada (77%).

Respondents from both India and Indonesia showed the training provided by the SEASEP programme had a positive impact on their understanding of the importance of health and safety, as well as empowering them to have a positive impact on the health and safety culture of their companies.

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The training was also shown to positively impact the respondents' potential career progress.

The majority of the students also showed that they were planning to partiipate in events related to occupational health and safety inspection, helping to further the reach of the SEASEP training.

The training was also shown to be directly relevant to the employment of most of the respondents.

The relevance of the training was also shown to be useful for the majority of respondents to gain employment interest in their regions.

The international standards of the SEASEP training was also shown to be of importance to companies in both Indoa and Indonesia.

In addition, most of the trainees in employment replied that new safety and/or inspection rules had been implemented by their companies following the training.

Those in employment also showed that the majority of their companies were insisting on the correct PPE equipment to be used as a result of the training.

Furthermore, most of the companies employing SEASEP trainees were shown to be adopting further international health and safety (including inspection standards) as a result of the programme.

The reach of the programme continued to be felt beyond the trainees themselves, with the majority of employed respondents in India and Indonesia stating that new safety douments and working standards had been introduced.

These statistics show that the SEASEP programme is having a positive impact on individuals and companies alike.