As we agree that Happiness is the Main Goal of Life (Please refer to my previous posts https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2015/04/happiness-main-goal-of-life.html, https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/12/happy-world-prospective-perspective.html), let us try to understand the Happiness from the holistic spectrum…
Let me abbreviate Safety as S, Health
as H, Environment as E. As I feel Happiness has to be full and it has no shortcuts, let us keep it as it is. Now let us see how these are interdependent.
Safety is life. Without safety,
there is no life. We are responsible for our own safety and the safety of
others as we can create and ensure a safety environment around us. Everything
external to us comes under environment, whether it is natural environment or
business environment or economic environment or any such environment… The
unsafe practices we follow, may create unsafe conditions in the environment causing
an unsafe environment and vice versa. The unsafe environment further affects
the health of the people. Let us take an example to understand the interdependency…
During this Covid-19 pandemic
situation, the unsafe practice of not wearing mask, not maintaining hand hygiene
and social distancing is creating an unsafe environment for self and others also.
Our unsafe acts create a conducive environment for the virus to spread,
ultimately affecting the health of self and others too (https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/06/everything-is-in-your-hands.html)
… Simultaneously our health again creates an environment, which dictates the
safety precautions to be taken. Very few people used to wear masks to protect
themselves from the pollution earlier due to less awareness about the health
risks and the delayed effects of pollution on health. As the effect of not
wearing the mask & other safety guidelines is causing an immediate effect
on the health, people started following them. If we go deeper to understand the
interdependency among EHS, we will understand the need of integration of these
concepts as well…
Now let us link EHS with Happiness…
If we see, at individual level or
organization level or country or world level, all the resources Man, Machine,
Material, Money & Time are spent basically on these EHS only. We spend time
& money to take care of self and environment to be healthy. That is to
create a healthy environment to live. That’s why Health is considered as the
real Wealth (https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2015/05/whose-wealth-is-our-health.html).
If EHS is intact, our resources are conserved. If we are resourceful, there won’t
be any stress. That itself leads to the Happiness. We can’t be Happy even if
one is missing from EHS. If the Environment is not suitable, we can’t be Happy.
If the Health of self or others is not well, how can we be Happy? If we are
unsafe or creating an unsafe condition for others, we can never be Happy… Without
Safety (life), there is no Happiness. Safety is ensured by knowing & minimizing
the risks. If that is not done, always we will be under stress which reduces
the Happiness.
So, all the three EHS are very
important for ensuring Happiness of self & others. That’s why it is better to integrate all and
have a holistic approach towards these important aspects at all levels-
individual, organizational, national, international level also…
That’s why I came with a New Year
wish….
Happy, Safe, Healthy &
Eco-friendly New Year…. Happy World…
(https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/12/happy-world-prospective-perspective.html)
