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Providing Safety Accountability
Employees must believe with a high degree of certainty that consequences follow their actions. Management, and supervisors in particular, play an extremely important role in motivating and shaping employee attitudes. If the supervisor values safety and conveys those values to his or her employees through safety training, supervision and consistent accountability, those employees will understand that the only acceptable behavior is safe behavior. In most cases appropriate behavior will follow. However, if the supervisor winks at safety rules and doesn't follow through with accountability, his or her employees will get the message that safety is not truly a value or important. Unsafe behaviors and increased accident rates will follow.
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