Hazard Control Manager Responsibilities

Hazard control managers must teach others about accident-prevention principles and solicit their input. When seeking senior leader approval for hazard control expenditures, use a 

Develop, sign, and publish an organizational hazard control policy statement Describe key expectations related to accomplishing hazard control objectives Ensure that all organizational members can explain the major objectives Develop methods to track progress and provide feedback to all organizational members Require managers and supervisors to visibly support established objectives 

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Hazard control manager retains responsibilities for solving all safety-related problems. 

Organizations and hazard control managers must ensure the development of realistic objectives and goals. The attainment of hazard control objectives and goals will require development of written plans, procedures, policies, and directives. Develop and implement written documents that direct or require specific hazard control-related actions and behaviors. Written documents can assign hazard control responsibilities, communicate hazard control issues, and address issues such as inspections, training, and job-related processes. 

List seven key responsibilities of a hazard control manager. 

To better align a definition of safety with an emphasis on hazard and associated risk, Montante suggests that safety be defined more in terms of hazard control Replace the traditional mantras of Safety first , Think safety , and Safety is your responsibility ...Strive for the personal and organizational mastery where each hazard control manager can state with confidence and certainty that s/he intimately knows safety and how s/he and the company manage control (Montante, 2006). 

Assigning responsibility for hazard control (management and technical). 

Nine basic construction health and safety topics are identified in the survey, namely legislations/regulations (Tl) safety management (T2) risk identification (T3) safe practices and risk reduction (T4) hazard assessment (T5) hazard control and prevention (T6) mandatory procedures, training, records, and maintenance (T7) compliance, inspection, and penalties (T8) and incorporation of construction-safety-in-design courses (T9). The extent of coverage of these topics is presented in Fig. 11.14. It can be seen that all respondents indicated that topics Tl and T7 represent no more than 20% of the covered constraction health and safety topics, while about 74% of the responses indicated that T2 and T4 represent no more than 20% of the covered topics. However, 13 % of the responses indicated that T2 and... 

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