Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services - Chapter 6

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Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services - Chapter 6 6 Safety and Health Management The safety and health program needs to be professionally managed. (Courtesy of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.) 6.1 SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT Management of safety and health is accomplished through a strong leadership that provides the resources, motivation, priorities, and accountability for ensuring the safety and health of the workforce. This leadership involves setting up systems to ensure continuous improvement and maintaining a health and safety focus while attending to production concerns. Enlightened managers understand the value in creating and fostering a strong safety culture within their organization. Safety should be a priority so that it is a value of the organization as opposed to a mundane duty. Integrating safety and health concerns into the everyday management of the organ- ization, just like production, quality control, and marketing allows for a proactive approach to accident prevention and demonstrates the importance of working safety in the entire organization. You can increase worker protection, cut business costs, enhance productivity, and improve employee morale. Worksites participating in OSHA’s voluntary protection programs (VPP) have reported OSHA-verified lost workday cases at rates 60%–80% lower than their industry averages. For every $1 saved on medical or insurance compensation costs (direct costs), an additional $5–$50 are saved on indirect costs, such as repair to equipment or materials, retraining new workers, or production delays. ß 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. During 3 years in the VPP, a Ford plant noted a 13% increase in productivity, and a 16% decrease in scrapped product that had to be reworked. Bottom line, safety does pay off. Losses prevented go straight to the bottom line profit of an organization. With today’s competitive markets and narrow profit margins, loss control should be every manager’s concern. Management actions include the following: . Establishing a safety and health policy . Establishing goals and objectives . Providing visible top management leadership and involvement . Ensuring employee involvement . Ensuring assignment of responsibility . Providing adequate authority and responsibility Ensuring accountability for management, supervisors, and rank and file . employees . Providing a program evaluation 6.1.1 SAFETY HEALTH POLICY AND By developing a clear statement of management policy, you help everyone involved with the worksite understand the importance of safety and health protection in relation to other organizational values (e.g., production vs. safety and health). A safety and health policy provides an overall direction or vision while setting a framework from which specific goals and objectives can be developed. 6.1.2 GOALS OBJECTIVES AND Companies should make general safety and health policy specific by establishing clear goals and objectives, and make objectives realistic and attainable by aiming at specific areas of performance that can be measured or verified. Some examples are as follows: have weekly inspections and correct hazards found within 24 h, or train all employees about hazards of their jobs, and specific safe behaviors (use of job safety analysis sheets) before beginning work. 6.1.3 VISIBLE TOP MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP Values and goals of top management in an organization tend to get emulated and accomplished. If employees see the emphasis that the top management puts on safety and health, they are more likely to emphasize it in their own activities. Besides following set safety rules themselves, managers can also participate in plant-wide safety and health inspections, personally stopping activities or conditions that are hazardous until the hazards can be corrected, assigning specific responsibilities, par- ticipating in or helping to provide training, and tracking safety and health performance. 6.1.4 ASSIGNMENT RESPONSIBILITY OF Everyone in the workplace should have some responsibility for safety and health. Clear assignment helps avoid overlaps or gaps in accomplishing activities. ß 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Safety and health is not the sole responsibility of the safety and health professional. Rather, it is everyone’s responsibility, while the safety and health professional is a resource. 6.1.5 PROVISION AUTHORITY OF Any realistic assignment of responsibility must be accompanied by the needed authority and by having adequate resources. This includes appropriately trained and equipped personnel as well as sufficient operational and capital funding. 6.1.6 ...