Components of a safety and health program

There are three basic methods for assessing safety and health program effectiveness. This discussion explains each of them. It also provides more detailed information on how to use these tools to evaluate each element and subsidiary component of a safety and health program. The three basic methods for assessing safety and health program effectiveness are... 

Written safety plans, training and inspections are three vital components of a safety and health program. Each must be carefully executed not only to meet the company s needs, but to comply with OSHA regulations and industry standards. Employers turn to a myriad of resources to help in this effort, but should carefully assess each when choosing the best approach. 

The terms JHA (job hazard analysis) and JSA (job safety analysis) are different ways of describing the same process. That process involves breaking down a job into its smaller steps, identifying hazards, and implementing controls. No matter what you call the process, it is an important component of a safety and health program. 

To become a vital component of your safety and health program... 

For employees to become involved with their safety and health program, they must know about it and understand how it works for them. Several components of employee safety and health programs require direct, committed employee participation if the program is to succeed in helping to provide for a safe and healthful work environment. 

Self-fulfillment needs are composed of the requirements it takes to become all that one is capable of becoming and to fulfill oneself as completely as possible. The self-fulfillment needs are so complex that people never reach a point where they are completely fulfilled. They do what they do, not because they want others to notice or reward them, but because they feel a need to be creative, to grow, to achieve, and to become all that they are capable of becoming. These individuals understand the true importance of safety and health on the job it is a part of them. They wiU foUow the safety and health rules because they have internalized the true function of the safety and health program they realize that it is a vital component of the whole operation. These individuals have a sense of needing to help others reach an understanding of the safety and health issue. 

Describe the components of a safety program that would indicate acceptable safety and health training. 

A sample of a written occupational safety and health program, which includes examples of the major program elements and components, is fonnd in Appendix A. 

When evaluating each part of a worksite s safety and health program, use one or more of the above methods as appropriate. The remainder of this discussion identifies the components found in each element of a quality safety and health program and describes useful ways to assess these components. 

The line or first-line supervisor is the key component in a working safety and health program. No other person has as much personal contact on a day-to-day basis with the workers. He or she is the communicator of the company s policies and procedures. No one else models safety and health quite like the line supervisor. He or she is the example from which workers draw their behavior relevant to job safety and health. The flrst-Une supervisor sets the tone for the workplace and is the role model for the company by conveying, implementing, supporting, and enforcing all the company s policies and procedures from production to safety. 

It takes some degree of organization and commitment to structure an environment where workers will be motivated to perform their work in a safe and healthy manner. The safety and health environment must have a foundation. A written safety and health program is the key component in providing and structuring that foundation. This written program should set the tone for safety and health within the work environment. 

BBS cannot be viewed as the panacea or end-all solution for the prevention of accidents/ incidents, but only as one tool in the arsenal of tools, and it does not supplant a complete and organized overall approach in addressing occupational safety and health issues of today. All the components discussed in this book must be in place, such as training, safety and health program, accident/incident analysis, safety engineering, controls, interventions, etc. It is only then that BBS can become an integral part of the occupational safety and health initiative. 

Safety and health training should be a major component of your written safety and health program. There are times to train and there are times when training will not make a difference. If the worker has the job skills and can perform the job but is not doing the job in a safe manner when he or she knows the safe way to perform the job, then you have a behavioral problem, which... 

The remainder of this discussion will identify the components found in each element of a quality safety and health program and will describe... 

Because airborne and volatile contaminants can present a significant threat to industrial workers health and safety, identification and quantification of these airbome and volatile contaminants through air/soil monitoring is an essential component of a health and safety program at an industrial site having hazardous substances. The purpose of air and soil monitoring is to identify and quantify airbome and volatile hazardous contaminants in order to determine the level of plant worker s protection needed. 

Peroxide hazard classification expert systems development at FM/Norwood is presently on hold until some of the resources noted become available. We have a way to go before a fully validated classification model is complete. At the same time, we are continuing to explore the possibility of using chemical database programs such as those available from Molecular Design Inc. and the University of Santiago, Chile (ARIUSA) as components of our chemical hazard expert systems. We are also looking at chemical databases on optical disc such as those available from DuPont, Aldrich, Micromedix and the Canadian Center for Occupational Safety and Health as components of future systems. 

Safety Course Description Development of knowledge and skills to reinforce the attitudes and behaviors required for safe and environmentally sound work habits. Emphasis on safety, health, and environmental issues in the performance of all Job tasks and regulatory compliance issues. The student will list components of a typical plant safety and environmental program describe the role of a process technician in relation to safety, health, and environment and identify and describe safety, health, and environmental equipment uses. 

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