Employee involvement Committee

Form an accident review committee to help determine preventability. This will not only help create a sense of fairness Eunong your drivers, but will also greatly enhance your driver/employee involvement effort. 

One way to make the most of employee involvement is to develop safety committees to make safety recommendations. Such committees, chaired by a supervisor, are an easy way to... 

Walters, D., and Gourlay, S. (1990) Statutory Employee Involvement in Health and Safety at the Workplace A Report of The Implementation and Effectiveness of the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977, London HSE. 

Tabulating inspection results and presenting the conclusions and ai comments made by the employees involved - for example, the workgroups involved or safety committees - for the purpose of enabhng others to determine appropriate actions based on findings. 

The size and make-up of the investigation team is usualfy dictated by the accident s serionsness or complexity. The health and safety representative or committee members, where these exist, with the help of the employees involved, usually investigate minor injnry or property damage. 

This is one of the ways to get all employees involved in the safety process allowing them to participate in the inspection process. Refer to Chapter 7 for more information on how to use employees in the process. One way to get employees involved is to form employee committees or joint employee-management committees to help conduct routine inspections. By implementing these methods, you can ... 

Safety committees have traditionally been used as a focal point of employee involvement. An effective safety committee can readily spread a positive influence for safety-related activities and efforts rapidly through an organization. To develop a positive safety committee, a charter of its mandate and structure, training on the basics of holding a meeting, and core training on the safety management system are needed to sustain its effectiveness. 

A member of the central safety committee should be designated to guide and administer the JHA process. This person would use cross-functional ad hoc teams to develop and maintain diversity and expertise for development of a portfolio of JHAs. The JHA ad hoc teams would develop specific JHAs based on the risk assessment list developed using the risk guidance card. They would draw on experience and expertise of employees and supervisors in the department or area where the job resides. Refer to Chapter 8, Getting Your Employees Involved in the Safety Management System . 

Use a charter to clearly define how they will operate and use the JHA process. The charter should be authorized by the leadership team as approved by the central safety committee. Refer to Chapter 8, Getting Your Employees Involved in the Safety Management System and Appendix O. 

Once the steering committee has the observation process up and mnning, it wUl usually want to expand employee involvement. The design team will often set a... 

Neither federal nor state safety and health regulations require companies to form safety committees. However, they are widely recognized as an effective tool in generating employee involvement, raising employee awareness, and strengthening a company s overall safety and health program. One source that covers safety and health committees is contained in 29 CFR 1960, Federal Employee Safety and Health, Subpart F-Occupational Safety and Health Committees. Listed below are general provisions from safety and health committees required for Federal employees ... 

Safety committees can be very helpful in getting employees involved in a safety and health program. The employees who work the jobs every day have a good idea of the safety issues within a particular task and can aid in correcting the problems. This is discussed in more detail in Chapter 5. 

Joint/labor management committees Employee safety representatives Employee involvement Safety bulletin boards Use of computers... 

Examples of mechanisms used to trigger employee involvement include establishing safety committees attended by employees and management representatives as well as unit safety meetings, training, involvanent in incident investigation teams and others. 

Focus on proactive measures NOT injury rates. OSHA looks unfavorably on incentive programs that could lead employees to hide injuries in an attempt to retain the incentive. OSHA prefers incentive programs that focus on employee involvement in safety activities, such as participation in a safety committee, attending safety training, or conducting inspections. 

An initial effort by a prior subcommittee of the Committee on Economic Status, involving a survey of a representative number of industrial companies, had developed details on the then-current methods for compensating employee-inventors. The joint subcommittee, however, felt that recommendation of a formal position to be taken by ACS would first require answers to some basic questions, for example ... 

The chairman of the committee also has the responsibility and authority to assure that, where Dow products are involved, immediate action is taken anywhere in the world when necessary to protect employees, customers, the public, and the environment. 

While Eaton and Nocerino (2000) find the existence of safety committees associated with higher injury claim rates, they also find that greater worker involvement in safety committees leads to better safety outcomes. This is consistent with our expectations concerning employee decision making, including both the number of dimensions (decision making, financial returns, and safety process) that woikers participate in and the degree of that participation. 

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