Employees Employee safety coordinator

As you move into implementation, one member of each steering committee should be appointed as the local process owner, or coordinator, for your new safety process. This person may be a staff member, supervisor, or hourly employee who will serve as the employee safety coordinator. If the position is assigned to an hourly employee, you may want to rotate it annually. 

Summary of Steering Committee Responsibilities. Figure 15.2 summarizes the ongoing responsibilities of the steering committee. The employee safety coordinator (or other designated process owner) is responsible for ensuring that the team is actively... 

Contract employee safety is controlled through work authorizations that applies to ail workers. Work authorizations allow management to safely coordinate contract empi o cc act i vitics with emplovte activities. 

Safety coordinators teach employees six or more forms of punishment or consequence that will happen to them (individuals) if they are injured, including being ... 

Coordinate your safety program. Depending on the size of your company, departmental coordination may be an important part of employee involvement and your overall employee safety program. 

Contract employees must perform their work safely. Considering that contractors often perform very specialized and potentially hazardous tasks such as confined space entry activities and nonroutine repair activities it is quite important that their activities be controlled while they are working on or near a covered process. A permit system or work authorization system for these activities would also be helpful to all affected employers. The use of a work authorization system keeps an employer informed of contract employee activities, and as a benefit the employer will have better coordination and more management control over the work being performed in the process area. A well run and well maintained process where employee safety is fully recognized will benefit all of those who work in the facility whether they be contract employees or employees of the owner. 

This aids in ensuring hazards ha e been iderttified on the basic/irrtmediate level. They can be done by safety represerrtatives, safety coordinators, employees or rmion representatives. Once a checklist has been filled out, assessment decides the priorities and the best control measures can be selected. 

Safety and health consultants can be used to conduct preliminary or baseline audits. Safety practitioners from similar organizations also could be invited to participate in the audit process. Management and employees should be well represented during audits and the safety coordinators and risk managers should be involved. 

In addition to the behavioral safety coordinator, you will often want to identify an employee safety coordinator in each natural work team. This employee should serve to champion the process and be the point of contact for the steering committee in areas that do not have steering committee representation. 

Job-Specific Orientation Whenever possible, this should be conducted or coordinated by the trainee s immediate supervisor or team leader. It is the only chance these people have to make a good first impression regarding care and concern about the employee s safety, health, and general well being. Remember, First impressions are lasting impressions and You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. ... 

Note Depending on your business and the number of employees you have, you may simply have a designated safety coordinator (who may be a supervisor /lead worker) or a larger organized safety and health unit. Customize this section to fit the needs of your p. 

Strength ACSO shift supervisor performed running roll call for those on-duty. Personnel were ordered to go to staging (per their Incident Command System training) and reported to Aiken Department of Public Safety for accountability. ACSO appointed Staging officer to coordinate incoming law enforcement resources. To aid in accountability efforts, an employee roster was developed by plant supervision (from Avondale Mills). 

In designing the Process Safety Management standard (PSM), OSHA looked at overall process safety from a broad system s view and identified 14 key elements that industry should address to minimize catastrophic accidents. The 14 elements cover the things that can cause a process failure and accidents. Some of the major causes of process accidents are a lack of training, lack of information about process equipment, lack of equipment inspections, poor coordination with contractors, and lack of employee participation in process planning and implementation. The program is triggered by above-threshold quantities of any of 136 chemicals. The purpose of the standard is to minimize the consequences of a catastrophic release of a toxic, flammable, reactive, or explosive chemical. The importance of this standard is that it requires safety analysis and names certain analytic techniques to use or their equivalent. 

Hiring and appointing employees is a function in which management ensures that someone is both mentally and physically capable of safely carrying out the work for a position. Hiring the correct person for the task is a prime consideration for the prevention of accidents. The success of coordinating the safety system will indirectly depend on the support it receives from the safety department, and this depends on the quality of safety and health staff initially appointed. 

The function of all safety departments and personnel should be to guide, educate, train, and motivate all levels of management, workers, and unions in the techniques of accident and disease prevention, and to advise and coordinate the safety system (GETMAC). This should be a staff function and not a line function (see Figure 5.1). All employees have some safety responsibility, but management, senior and line, has ultimate safety authority, and therefore is ultimately accountable. The safety department cannot, and should not, be held accountable for the safety performance of an organization. This has been stated by a number of safety authors, yet safety departments traditionally drift back to managing the safety of others. 

Safety departments should be professional. Their responsibility is to advise management and coordinate the activities of an ongoing safety management system. They cannot improve the safety by accepting responsibility for safety. They should not directly try to influence behaviors of employees. Only management can do that. Traditional safety is a thing of the past. New approaches are needed by safety staff if they are to assist in the safety culture change process. 

They are also important for liaison between various employees and also between the employees and different levels of management. Health and safety representatives are basically part-time safety advisors. They are an extension of the safety department s capabilities and help them in their job of coordinating the safety system. 

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