Hazard control programs

Though most employees understand the need for PPE, many neglect the use of it due to laziness, because they are willing to take a risk, or because they consider the PPE too uncomfortable to wear. Management must have a proactive PPE program and enforce this method of hazard control. Programs that are not enforced are not programs. 

Administrative controls can be broken down into two broad categories programs and activities. Programs are the written documents that explain how hazards are to be controlled. Activities are the programs put into action. Some of the more common administrative hazard control programs include policies, procedures, and plans. Some of the more common administrative hazard control activities are training, housekeeping, the permit system, and safety inspections and audits. 

Implement, administer, and advise others on hazard controls and hazard control programs. 

Establishing and implementing techniques that involve risk analysis, cost, cost-benefit analysis, work sampling, loss rate, and similar methodologies, for periodic and systematic evaluation of hazard control and hazard control program effectiveness. 

Providing results of evaluation assessments, including recommended adjustments and changes to hazard controls or hazard control programs, to individuals or organizations responsible for their management and implementation. 

For example, I then wrote that since 1980, no articles had been published in the magazine Professional Safety that had performance measures or performance measurement in their titles or abstracts. A further search was made using effective and effectiveness as the key phrases. Two articles were found The June 1981 issue of the magazine contained How Do You Know Your Hazard Control Program Is Effective, written by Fred A. Manuele the February 1989 issue included Using Perception Surveys to Assess Safety System Effectiveness by Charles W. Bailey and Dan Petersen. 

Mannele, Fred A. How Do Yon Know Yonr Hazard Control Program Is Effective Professional Safety, Jnne 1981. 

Measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness of hazard control programs. (ASSE, 2012a, copyright American Society of Safety Engineers, reprinted with permission)... 

F. A. Manuele, How Do You Know Your Hazard Control Program is Effective , Professional Sq/ety, June 18-24 (1981). 

When developing a hazard control program, you should anticipate resistance when teaching new job practices and procedures to employees. 

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