Accountability supervisors

Did not hold supervisor accountable for safety through merit salary... 

Hold all managers and supervisors accountable for their activities... 

Hold all supervisors accountable for all assigned safety responsibilities, including their responsibility to make sure that employees under their direction comply with all safety policies, procedures, and rules... 

After implementing a 100% fall protection program and supervisor accountability. Horizon Steel Erectors, Inc., had a 96% reduction in its accident cost per hour, from 4.26 to 0.18. 

You cannot have an effective safety and health program without specifically holding the first-line supervisors accountable for themselves and their employees safety and health performance (as well as other management personnel). 

Are responsibilities written out so that they can be clearly understood Do employees understand their own responsibilities and those of others Are hazards caused in part because no one was assigned the responsibility to control or prevent them Are hazards allowed to exist in part because someone in management did not have the clear responsibility to hold a lower level manager or supervisor accountable for canying out assigned responsibilities ... 

A master hazard control plan should function as the directive for all organizational accident prevention efforts. An effectively written document should provide the roadmap for meeting organizational hazard control expectations, objectives, and goals. A comprehensive plan must hold managers and supervisors accountable for ensuring all operational policies, procedures, and... 

Are hazards allowed to exist in part because someone in management did not have the clear responsibility to hold a lower-level manager or supervisor accountable for carrying out assigned responsibilities ... 

Their role ako includes making clear assignments of safety responsibih-ties, providing authority and resources to carry out assigned tasks, and holding subordinate managers and supervisors accountable. 

We mentioned earlier that you are going to need to get upper management to buy in to safety before you can get line supervisors to buy in. You are also going to need upper management s support to hold supervisors accountable for safety, which is key to getting them onboard. It s safe to say that if a department doesn t meet production goals, the supervisor will hear about it. But, what about safety It should be no different. Supervisors need to be held accountable for their responsibilities, just as we all do. And that means there need to be specific and identified... 

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