Safety Management

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Safety Management
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What is Management?

• The science of getting things done through other
  people.
• Management Roles
• Designer of programs
• Administrator of programs
• Auditor of programs
• Evaluator of programs

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Keys to Management Performance

• Management must create the environment to
  motivate workers
• Selection of the right person, job and
  environment
• Behavior and interpersonal
  skills essential

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Human Behavior and Safety

• The Troubled Employee
• an employee whose personal problems interfere
  significantly with job performance.
• How does the troubled employee effect the
  organization?

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Human Behavior and Safety

• Psychological factors that influence safe
  behaviors
• Individual Differences
• Motivation
• Frustration and Conflict
• Employee Attitudes

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Human Behavior and Safety

• Stress in Workplace !!!!
• Examples?
• Who creates them?
• Effects on safe behaviors?
• Coping with stress?

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Human Behavior and Safety

• Safety Techniques to Address Human Behavior
• educating employees in proper safety methods
• observing/discussing and measuring safe behaviors
  as the occur
• reinforcing safe behavior

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Human Behavior Creating Change

• A company with a strong safety culture typically
  experiences few at-risk behaviors, consequently
  they also experience low accident rates, low
  turn-over, low absenteeism, and high
  productivity.
• Top management support of a safety culture often
  results in acquiring a safety director, providing
  resources for accident investigations, and safety
  training.

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Human Behavior Creating Change

• Ultimately, safety becomes everyone's
  responsibility, not just the safety director's.
• Management and employees are committed and
  involved in preventing losses.

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Safety Leadership

• What makes people want to follow a leader? Why
  do people reluctantly comply with one leader and
  passionately follow another to the ends of the
  earth?

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6 Cs of Leadership

• Character
• Charisma
• Commitment
• Communication
• Competence
• Courage

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What do the letters L-E-A-D-E-R mean?
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6 important things that all leaders do

• Listen and Learn from others
• Energize the organization
• Act for the benefit of everyone
• Develop themselves and others
• Empower others to lead
• Recognize achievement

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Listen and Learn from others

• Adopt the 2/1 rule
• Listen to what is NOT being said
• Let others speak first
• Encourage people to dump on you
• Learn from failures
• Promote a culture of learning
• Listen to yourself

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Energize the organization

• Share successes
• Encourage people to meet and mingle
• Develop a plan that does away with isolationism
• Plan timely development sessions to recharge your
  members
• Use humor liberally

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Act for the benefit of everyone

• Just do it!
• Set the example Walk the talk
• Be willing to make the tough decisions
• Go on a problem hunt
• Remember The Hard Right
• Be a champion

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Develop themselves and others

• Think!
• Know thyself
• Be driven by vision, but willing to nurture the
  ideas and talents of others
• Demonstrate a willingness to teach others
• Be honest
• Tell others what you expect

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Empower others to lead

• Ask others to drive for a while
• Foster and encourage cooperation
• Learn to manage a diverse team
• Learn to let go
• Delegate responsibility . . . authority
• Anticipate problems and head them off before they
  occur
• Focus on results

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Recognize achievement

• Good ideas and good people need to be noticed
• Remember that recognition is critical to
  self-esteem
• Be sensitive to those who dont like a fuss
• Make a big deal of achieving goals
• Remember that people marry people, not
  organizations

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Managing Safety and Health
Programs
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Introduction

• Research indicates several benefits to companies
  who establish effective worker safety and health
  programs
• Reduction in the extent and severity of
  work-related injuries and illnesses
• Improved employee morale
• Higher productivity
• Lower workers compensation costs

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Introduction

• An effective safety and health program makes all
  the difference in preventing injuries and
  illnesses in the workplace. The result is lower
  accident-related costs.
• Other benefits include
• Reduced absenteeism
• Lower turnover
• And it's the right thing to do.

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Integrated Approach to Health and Safety Programs

• The best Safety and Health Programs involve every
  level of the organization, instilling a safety
  culture that reduces accidents for workers and
  improves the bottom line for managers.
• To be most effective, safety and health must be
  balanced with, and incorporated into, the other
  core business processes.

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Major Elements

• Keys to an effective program
• Establishing program objectives
• Establishing organizational policy
• Establishing responsibility
• Management commitment and employee involvement
• Worksite analysis
• Hazard prevention and control
• Safety and health training

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Establishing Program Objectives

• Some objectives may include
• Gaining and maintaining support at all levels
• Motivating, educating and training to recognize,
  report and correct hazards
• Engineering hazard controls into the design
• Providing a program of inspection and maintenance
• Complying with safety and health standards
• Educating staff

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Establishing Organizational Policy

• The policy statement should reflect
• The importance that management places on the
  safety and health of its employees
• Their commitment
• An emphasis on minimizing incidents and losses
• Their intent to comply with standards
• The need for leadership, participation, and
  support of entire organization

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Establishing Responsibility

• Management Commitment
• Have monetary resources
• Provide motivation to get things done
• Leadership

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Management Commitment

• Show commitment to safety
• Safety and health policy statement
• Clear program goals and objectives
• Visible involvement in program
• from top management

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Management Commitment

• Assignment of safety and health responsibilities
• Clear communication of program goals

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Management Commitment

• Provide adequate authority to responsible
  personnel
• Hold managers, supervisors and employees
  accountable for meeting their responsibilities
• Measure/evaluate program

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Establishing Responsibility

• Other roles
• Housekeeping and Maintenance
• Purchasing Agents
• Employees (to come)

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Employee Involvement

• Active role for employees
• Workplace inspections
• Hazard analysis
• Development of safe work rules
• Training of coworkers new hires

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Safety Committees

• CONs
• Can be unproductive and ineffective

• PROs
• Provides active participation and cooperation
• Serves as a forum for discussion/facilitate
  communication
• Employees can communicate problems openly
• Combined knowledge base
• Produce effective solutions

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Safety Committee Responsibilities

• Evaluate effectiveness of safety programs
• Detect unsafe conditions and practices
• Improve safety policies and regulations
• Recommend control measures
• Assess the implications of changes in work tasks,
  operations, and processes
• Compile and distribute information to employees
• Analyze incident and injury data

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Group Activity

• Get in groups
• Select an industry (e.g., healthcare, steel
  manufacturing, food manufacturing, construction,
  etc.)
• As a group, determine the following
• Who is on the committee
• Why/how they can contribute
• Who leads the committee
• What issues will you discuss
• How is the information relayed from the committee
  to employees
• Do you have any sub-committees
• Establish a mission statement
• How often will you meet
• What times will you meet