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Total and open communications with employees, suppliers, and customers... 

Open your door to employees. Safety and heath professionals should be readily available for employees to communicate with them. Safety and health professionals should strive to create a level of comfort for all employees to become actively involved and take ownership of the safety and health fnnction. 

Maintains open communications with all employees and reduces or eliminates barriers to reporting safety issues, hazards, and associated risk. 

Open communications exist with employees, contractors, regulators, and the public ... 

Employee Empowerment - The panel found that there was not always a positive trusting and open enviromnent with effective lines of communication. Only about two of the five refineries had the desired level of empowerment... 

Employees who are working in separate rooms within the premises should be able to communicate with each other. If no well-designed communication resources were in place the personnel would be forced to communicate to each other through windows, locks, opened doors, etc. Routing of personnel and goods will then be seriously jeopardised. 

Always use the knowledge that your employees have gained from their close involvement with equipment, materials, and processes. You should encourage your employees to communicate openly with the professionals who do the comprehensive surveys [2]. 

Communicate to employees that a safe workplace and open dialogue with management will improve morale. Underscore the special value of this training, especially with a smaller workforce. 

Assess how the phrase How can I help you opens the doors to effective communication with employees. 

This information will clearly communicate to the individual receiving the corrective action what behavior occurred that was unacceptable and what must be done to improve. Although this communication might be perceived as being written up," it can be perceived in a positive light in that open communication has occurred in a way that seeks to rehabilitate the relationship with the employee or contractor rather than simply attempting to terminate it. It provides the individual with the ability to take control of the situation and alter behavior that can result in negative consequences. 

Defensive and Adversarial Relationships—The mind-set toward the regulatory agencies or professional groups is defensive. Recommendations are met with the comment, Is this required by OSHA (or other regulatory body) The main thrust of safety activity is to do the minimum. Employees are not involved in the safety management system and are not listened to when they communicate potential concerns of hazardous conditions. The safety function is considered to be adversarial to productivity and profitability, as poor relationships limit open communications. 

Employee participation in the JHA process is vital in uncovering ad hoc informal work method(s) and determining what beliefs exist about how work must be accomplished. The success of the JHA process, as with developing of a strong safety culture, depends on a trusting interaction between employees and the leadership team. With positive open communications, better control solutions can be defined, developed, and implemented. 

A simple yet effective approach in developing any JHA process is just listen to what employees have to say about their job. With positive and open communications, employees will express their concerns. Too often dialog is shut down when employees expressing concern are immediately told their concerns are unwarranted or when ideas are not allowed to be fully developed. 

A busy leadership team with its many obligations can overlook the fact that employees have a detailed knowledge of the work even as it has a basic intuition about that knowledge. A level of trust should be present for open communications between the levels of the organization. 

Keep focused on the purpose of the interview The intent of an interview is to open and maintain a line of communication with employees. As the interview develops, information not pertinent to your inquiry may develop. You must... 

The code demands a commitment to openness and community dialog and through community outreach it promotes an open, ongoing dialog with employees and the community. Information is provided about such activities as waste minimization, emission reduction, health effects of chemicals, and efforts to ensure the safe transport of chemicals. 

The CCMC administers the SRS HazCom Program, in complianee with the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200) and the S/RID. All employees have access, via the SRS Intranet, to the site MSDS database, which contains electronic images of MSDSs for products used on site. This open access is important for worker health and safety and satisfies OSHA requirements. 

It is important that safety professionals acquire a working knowledge of the ADA as well as key areas in which the ADA and safety function may intersect in order to be able to recognize when the ADA may be applicable to the situation. Safety professionals should be able to recognize when a potentially qualified individual is requesting an accommodation and appropriately address the situation in order to comply with the ADA. As noted by Mr. David Fram, director of ADA and EEO Services from the National Employment Law Institute, in his 2010 presentation, utilization of the simple question How can I help you as the initial response can open the doors to communications between the safety professional and employee, as well as starting down the right path to ensure compliance with the ADA. ... 

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