Being a Part Workforce Involvement

Employee involvement Is paramount to an effective safety and health effort. 

Before reading this chapter, you should evaluate employee involvement by circling the number that best represents the state of your safety and health initiative at this time. 

Employee involvement 5 All employees have ownership of safety and health and can explain their roles 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT A PRACTICAL APPROACH 

Management has to make the commitment to involve the workforce in safety and health at the worksite. Since management is in control, it is their prerogative to decide the extent of involvement, depending on what they can endnre or on the amount of control they can forgo. However, there are positive outcomes from employees involvement. It is a real way to gain commitment to safety and health. Safety and health become personal issnes for your workforce. 

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Chapter 3—Being a Part Workforce Involvement— This chapter delineates the roles and responsibilities of management, snpervisors, workers, and the safety and health professional. It discusses how to organize joint labor/management safety and health committees and how the employer can benefit most from workforce involvement. 

An accident/incident prevention process is as simplistic as it sounds. Within the text of this book the elements are provided for such a process. On the people side of this process, employers must commit themselves and all facets of management. The leadership for this process comes from management. This does not mean that the workforce should not be part of the process. The involvement of employees must be incorporated into the process in order to elicit a commitment and buy-in to the prevention effort. This is an important motivational factor for employees. 

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