* Provide the leadership and direction essential to maintain the safety and health policy as the fundamental
priority in all operations.
* Hold all subordinate supervisors accountable for all assigned safety and health responsibilities, including their
responsibility to ensure that employees under their direction comply with all safety and health policies, procedures
and rules.
* Evaluate the safety and health performance of subordinate supervisors taking into account these indicators of
good performance: low injury and illness experience; good housekeeping; a creative, cooperative involvement in
safety and health activities; a positive approach to safety and health problems and solutions; and a willingness
to implement recommendations of professionals.
* Ensure the safety of the physical plant including structural features, equipment and the working environment.
Insist that a high level of housekeeping be maintained, that safe working procedures be established, and that employees
follow these procedures and apply good judgment to the hazardous aspects of all tasks. Participate in regular inspections
of the plant to observe safety and health conditions and to communicate with employees. Offer positive reinforcement
and instruction during these tours, and require the correction of any hazards.
0* Actively participate in and support employee participation in safety and health program activities. Provide timely
and appropriate follow-up to recommendations made by any employee (or joint labor-management) group operating under
the safety and health program.
* Make certain that all new facilities, equipment, materials and processes are analyzed for potential hazards before
completion of design or purchase, that all potential hazards are prevented or controlled before their introduction
into the worksite, that tools and machinery are used as designed, and that all equipment is properly maintained.
* Ensure that job hazard analyses are conducted periodically for all jobs, with particular emphasis on tasks known
to be dangerous, so that hazards can be uncovered and prevented or controlled.
* Make sure that employees know about and are encouraged to use systems for reporting hazards and making safety
and health suggestions, that they are protected from harassment, that their input are genuinely considered, and
that their ideas are adopted when helpful and feasible.
* Ensure that prompt corrective action is taken whenever and wherever hazards are recognized or unsafe acts are
observed.
* Make sure that all hazardous tasks are covered by specific safe work procedures or rules to minimize injury.
* Provide all necessary safety and health equipment and protective devices, and make sure employees understand
and use them properly.
* Ensure that all injured persons, regardless how minor the injuries, receive prompt and appropriate medical treatment.
* Ensure that all accidents and incidents are promptly reported, thoroughly investigated and properly recorded,
and that safety award programs do not discourage reporting of any incident that must be recorded on the log.
* Keep abreast of accident and injury trends. Take proper corrective action, when needed, to reverse these trends.
* Ensure that all employees are physically qualified to perform their work.
* Make sure that all employees are trained and, when necessary, retrained to recognize and understand hazards and to follow safe work procedures for each hazardous job.
* Ensure that supervisors hold periodic safety and health meetings to review and analyze the causes of accidents/incidents and to promote free discussion of hazardous work problems and possible solutions.
* Use the safety director to help promote aggressive and effective safety and health programs.
* Help develop and implement emergency procedures. Make sure that all employees have opportunities to practice
their emergency duties.
* Participate in safety and health program evaluation.
* Refer to corporate level conflicts between productivity and safety and health.
* Refer to corporate level major concerns and capital needs for safety and health.
