Employee Involvement

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Employee Involvement
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Employee Involvement Tips

• Believe that you will have a safe and healthful
  workplace, whatever it takes
• Show your commitment through leadership
• Communicate clearly to your employees that a safe
  and healthful workplace is a condition of
  employment
• Tell your employees what you expect of them

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Employee Involvement Tips

• Give employees adequate training and resources
  for the job expected of them
• Get as many employees involved in the process as
  possible to brainstorm, inspect, etc.
• Put employee safety and health participation on
  the clock

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Employee Involvement Tips

• Take your employees efforts, suggestions and
  concerns seriously
• Make sure employees hear about it when other
  employees ideas are successful

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Form an Employee Safety Committee

• The committee should be large enough to represent
  different parts of your worksite
• Try to have equal numbers of management and
  non-supervisory employees on the committee
• Ensure that the safety and health staff serves on
  the committee

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Suggested Committee Activities

• Hold regularly scheduled committee meetings
• Use an agenda so the discussion is value added
  and constructive
• Conduct regularly scheduled field and yard
  inspections
• Use a checklist
• Train the committee members to conduct
  inspections
• Involve the committee with helping to solve one
  or two difficult safety and health problems
• Take their recommendations and feedback seriously

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QuizAll Questions True or False
Q You should communicate clearly to your
employees that a safe and healthful workplace is
a condition of employment. A True
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QuizAll Questions True or False
Q Forming an employee safety committee is a good
way to involve employees. A True
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QuizAll Questions True or False
Q You should strive to have an equal number of
management / supervisory and non-supervisory
employees on a safety committee. A True
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QuizAll Questions True or False
Q Its not important to take your employees
efforts, suggestions and concerns seriously. A
False
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Employee Involvement - Resources

• OSHA VPP Publication Managing Worker Safety
  Health Chapter 4

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LOWER INCIDENTS

• No one gets hurt at work through LOWER
  incidents.

(Limiting Oilfield Workers' Exposures and Risks)
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