Safety Leadership Checklist

Connection between nodes is a link. Your connection to other people is a link. For example, when you talk to another person you link with them. When you as part of the leadership team have a face-to-face discussion, hold a daily preshift review, a weekly or monthly meeting, area walk-throughs, and/or review the equipment/machine-specific checklist with your employees, you are directly linked with your employee(s). Refer to Chapter 11, Developing an Activity-Based Safety System. Through your links, your message is directly communicated to the employees in each of these activities. Where you are not directly connected is where information may not be flowing. In addition, the employees you are linked with are in turn linked to other employees. 

Signature of quality (SoQ) It is a self-assessment process supported by a checklist covering customer focus, innovation, personnel and organizational leadership, use of technology and environment and safety issues. It is useful in FIT SIGMA for estabhshing a company health report. 

The walk-around inspection should routinely include a member of the leadership team as part of the designated inspection team. A checklist should be used to guide the inspection and, as discussed, be customized to the specific area under review (Managing Worker Safety and Health, n.d.). 

The next component of ABSS is a machine/equipment-specific checklist. This checklist is used to focus on specific, identified safety-related issues for each piece of machinery and/or equipment in the organization. It is developed and updated by employees and the leadership team (Figure 11.9) (Appendix L). 

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