Wishing Happy, Safe, Healthy & Eco-friendly New Year…

            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)