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VII. The Judgment of a professional employee s performance should involve input from his professional peers by means of confidential questionnaires. 

By seeking input from all levels, people will know that their contributions are important to the business and that they are key to its success. By encouraging all employees to recommend change they will feel a sense of responsibility and ownership. 

The committee consulted with and received input from many stakeholders, both principals and agents, including personnel assigned to the office of the PMCD and its support contractors contractor and subcontractor personnel responsible for operating chemical demilitarization facilities former employees of chemical demilitarization facilities congressional, state, and local officials members of state citizen advisory committees members of citizen activist groups and local citizens. (See Appendixes C, D, and I.)... 

Table 4.9 is obtained by using Eq. (4.8). For example, the direct requirement of the energy industry for service is 0.185, which is obtained by dividing 12 billion of service industry input by the total output of the energy sector, 65 billion. Table 4.9 shows that in addition to service costs of 18.5 cents, the energy sector needs 35.4 cents of input from itself, 44.6 cents of value added (mostly employee compensation), and 1.5 cents from basic industry to produce 1 of output. 

How do you seek and use input from employees and their supervisors/managers on education and training needs, expectations, and design ... 

In 2010, I led a project team to develop learning modules to help leaders understand inclusion and the behaviors that effective leaders display in this area. Inclusion is not necessarily limited to the way an organization deals with employees it may refer to interactions with other stakeholders customers, clients, partners, vendors, suppliers and subcontractors as well. As a result of extensive input from our employees, our efforts have been focused on the following outcomes ... 

While an organization should have formal supervisory arrangements to help ensure new employee safety, as discussed above there are factors, such as the number of new employees arriving, which may limit supervisory arrangements. To help overcome these limitations, and to ensure complete integration into a new work environment and the acquisition of familiarity, the organization and supervisors should formally organize input from one or more of a new employee s co-workers. 

Establish safety education and training for all employees and establish feedback channels to determine whether it is effective along with processes for continual improvement. The education should include reminders of past accidents and causes and input from lessons learned and trouble reports. Assessment of effectiveness may include information obtained from knowledge assessments during audits. 

I was engaged as an employee of < Consulting Company > by client s counsel < Law Firm Name > on < date > to assist with the implementation of hazards analyses at < facility name >. As part of that engagement, using input from < client > managers and from < the client corporation >, I led (or facilitated) the following hazards analyses ... 

Our labor respondents were most concerned about competitive pressures resulting in the temptation to cut comers, and stressed the importance of input from employees. One union official advised the NRC to ... 

Planning — As you design your safety meeting, one option is to use employee input when planning your session. You may be limited on the subject matter when a particular regulation changes, but input from your staff may reveal specific training needs or unique methods of presentation. 

The NPSA idenhfies patient safety-associated deficiencies with the aid of input from pahents and clinical experts, develops appropriate solutions, and monitors results of correchve measures within the NHS. Its initiatives and alerts include items such as hand hygiene, information for doctors and patients on steps to decrease risk of error, vaccine safety, and disclosure of error to all injured patients. Finally, the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) allows all NHS employees to provide the NPSA with reports on an anonymous basis. 

Several areas of this manufacturing company jointly considered the feasibility of offshoring certain engineering tasks. When the project started, it negatively affected employees morale and some key contributors feared losing their jobs. However, the leadership implemented an inclusive process to obtain input from key employees. The goal was to identify and protect the company s strategic technical competencies and the employees who ... 

Management systems for monitoring and performance measurement are to apply to such as workplace inspections, exposure assessments, incident tracking, employee input, and other needs as required by the employer s occupational health and safety management system. Findings deriving from those processes are to be communicated to interested parties. 

Obtain widespread acceptance and commitment. Solicit input from the affected employees and respect their perspectives and concerns when developing a system. 

When defining objectives, solicit input from as wide a range of employees as practical. Your ideas already may influence your managers and supervisors. Nonetheless, you will find that safety objectives are most effective when you discuss them with your supervisors and employees. At the least, secure their agreement and get employee buy-in. Employees who feel they have helped set objectives will be more motivated to achieve the stated task. 

This is one of the things that we as management do not do well— getting employee inputs. Why do you think this is so hard The one reason that the authors have dealt with is simple. Management in many cases is afraid of what they hear. K they listen to employees, they may have to solve problems and really do not want to deal with it— I do not have the time. This is a common statement from many managers. After all who needs more problems The bottom line is that if you want true employee participation you must ask the question and accept what you hear, solve the issues, and continue to go about your business. Once the culture is developed and trust begins to build, issues will solve themselves because employees will start to solve issues on their own and only come to management when they cannot get the situation resolved. 

These questions are subjective and need to be so in order to establish what the employee is experiencing as opposed to what is occurring in the workplace. Once the data are collected from the employee, it can be measured to the work environment to identify possible solutions needed to increase safety and reduce ergonomic stressors, if any actually exist. Employee input is invaluable when identifying ergonomic issues. 

I know safety professionals who see their role from a power and control perspective as opposed to a consultative perspective. As long as safety is viewed as something someone else does, as a litany of rules and procedures that must be followed and policed, or as having power over and control of others, safety will continue to suffer from lack of employee input and isolation from the management mainstream, as it has for the past 40 years. 

The employer must also request input from non-managerial employees responsible for direct patient care who are potentially exposed to injuries from contaminated sharps in the identification, evaluation, and selection of effective engineering and work practice controls. This process must be documented in the exposure control plan. Planning begins with iden-tif3dng employees who have occupational exposure. 

We ask our employees to ask questions. As part of the assessment of the training program, asks for input from employees regarding the training they have re-... 

The next component of ABSS is a machine/equipment-specific checklist. This is a checklist that is used to focus on specific identified safety issues for each piece of machinery and/or equipment in the organization. This checklist is developed and updated by the employees and supervisor who works with and around the specific equipment with the input from the safety staff. The key to this list is not to make it overly detailed. We suggest that no more than 15 of the most important items are listed on this checklist, which may cover specific inherent hazards of a machine or equipment. Refer to Appendix P, Operator General Observations and Machine/ Equipment-Specific Daily Inspection Checklist . For an overview, refer to Figure 11.2, Sample General Observations and Machine/Iiquipment-Specific Daily Inspection Checklist . 

The reporting employee was part of the discovery and kept in the loop until the hazards had been corrected based on the input from that employee. If the team did not feel that there was a hazard, it would be discussed with the employee and, as a team, a decision was made on what direction further activities would go. 

A safety manual is a written document that includes the utility s policies and practices. The utilitys safety manager is usually in charge of creating the manual with input from the safety committees. New employees should be introduced to the manual during their training session and given an incentive to read it carefully. 

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