Safety delegates

Managers and others with responsibility for decisions that affect the working environment, shall be provided the same training as members of working environment committees and safety delegates. 

Verneombudet, kollektivet og sikkerheten [The Safety Delegate, the Collective and the Safety], in R.K. Tinmannsvik (ed.) Robust arbeidspraksis. Hvorfor skjer det ikke flere ulykker pd sokkelen Tapir Trondheim, pp. 149-164. 

Safety delegation is what a manager does to entrust safety responsibility and give safety authority to his subordinates, while at the same time creating accountability for safety achievements. 

Ryggvik, H. 2008. Verneombudet, kollektivet og sikkerheten. (The safety delegate, the collective and the safety) In Tinmannsvik, R.K. (ed.) Robust arbeidspraksis. Hvorfor slger det ikkeflere ulykker pd sokkelen Trondheim Tapir. 

Example 2 In the same study, ten safety delegates were independently asked to code a written description of an accident by means of the ILCI model. No two such causal classifications were similar. 

ObMrv r, line manager and safety delegate till in the report... 

Training program for safety officers and safety delegates in industrial settings human factors and safety principles... 

Safety delegates - conducting negotiations with management to initiate safety measures - conducting safety campaigns... 

Make sure your proposal fits the corporate style and culture. Make sure your expectations for senior management are consistent with your company s operating style. For example, a CEO who is accustomed to delegating most decisions is unlikely to accept a role that seems to take away divisional authority, while a facility manager with little functional autonomy will probably be leery of taking a highly visible role without approval from a superior. Of course, the CEO retains overall accountability for environmental and safety performance—that cannot be del ated ... 

With very few exceptions, the responsibility for health and safety rests on you as an employer. However, many day-to-day tasks may be delegated. Your statement should show clearly how these tasks are allocated, but remember, you will still have ultimate responsibility. 

If you are not always there, or do not have time to manage on a day-to-day basis, you can delegate this role to someone else, eg director, manager or supervisor. You will need to ensure that they keep you fully Informed of health and safety matters - It will still be your overall responsibility. 

To ensure that the safety program is working, most companies have a safety policy follow-through. This includes monthly safety meetings, performance reviews, and safety audits. The monthly safety meetings include a discussion of any accidents (and resolution of prevention means), training on specific issues, inspection of facilities, and delegation of work. Performance reviews within the company for all employees must have a visible safety performance component. 

Unfortunately, the committee decided not to take into account in-depth considerations on security in the new standard draft. The security issue was delegated to another committee of SC65, to SC65C, WG 13, Digital Communications, Cyber Security (9), and the chairman of JTT4 became member of this committee. Unfortunately, this committee was not at all interested in safety, only in communications and cyber security. Here again, both worlds kept themselves separated ... 

The Meat Inspection Act of 1906. The responsibility for the safety and wholesomeness of meat and meat products falling under the provisions of this act is delegated to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA s responsibilities include inspection of meatprocessing facilities and animals before and after slaughter, inspection of meat products and meat-processing laboratories, and premarket clearance of meat product labels. When a food product contains less than 3 percent meat, the product comes under the jurisdiction of the FDA. Similar laws are the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Egg... 

If a required team member is not available, the project manager shall determine with the concurrence of the project safety representative, if the review can be adequately accomplished without the designated member. In such cases, a substitute individual from the supplemental member list below, should usually be provided in his place. A review should not be undertaken if an operations representative or his delegate is unavailable. 

Accrediting organizations emphasize patient safety as a fxmdamental issue. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services includes monitoring of medication errors as part of their conditions of participation, noting that the medical staff is responsible for developing policies and procedures that minimize drug errors. This fxmction may be delegated to the hospital s... 

The lUTOX has been an associate member of the International Council of Scientific Unions since 1987 and became a full member in 1996. In 1993, it was recognized as an official nongovernmental organization of the World Health Organization (WHO) and, as such, it contributes to the activities of the WHO s International Programme on Chemical Safety (WHO-IPCS) and sends delegates to the recently established International Eorum on Chemical Safety. 

---