Be the Motivating Force Behind a Safer Workplace

In its Safety & Health Management Systems eTool, OSHA says that effective protection from workplace hazards takes leadership and commitment from management. “Management leadership provides the motivating force and the resources for organizing and controlling activities within an organization.”

Visible actions to demonstrate safety leadership include:

• Making organizational safety expectations clear
• Supporting safety financially and providing the necessary resources
• Ensuring that employees know the reasons for safety and health processes and programs
• Effectively communicating the goals and objective of safety processes and programs
• Assigning responsibility, authority, and resources to responsible parties and holding them accountable
• Being visible and accessible to workers
• Setting an example by knowing and following the same safety rules employees are expected to follow
• Supporting the safety ideas and efforts of employees
• Being actively involved in all workplace safety initiatives

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Successful Safety Leadership

Leadership shapes and sustains the safety culture through positive actions, measures, commitments, and rewards, says the Transportation Health and Safety Organization of Ontario, Canada.

“Leadership is a constant demonstration by senior executives, key managers, and others in the organization that health and safety is the critical element of daily operations,” says this safety organization. In fact, leadership determines the extent to which safety rules and procedures are followed.

Typical beliefs held by successful safety and health leaders include:

• Safety is not an optional value.
• Being safe is a condition of employment.
• Safety and health can never be compromised.
• All incidents are preventable.
• Safety and health excellence is a continuous process. It is not a relay race, and there is no passing the baton.

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Compliance Is Our Middle Name

To lead your workforce to creating a safer workplace, it is vital that you have the all the information and assistance you need to succeed.

That’s where BLR’s OSHA Compliance Advisor comes into play. Safety professionals have depended on this twice-monthly newsletter for more than 2 decades, taking advantage of such features as:

• The latest OSHA and NIOSH news, court rulings, and proposed rules
• Compliance Report, with case studies of how promising ideas have been put to work
• Trainer’s Corner, providing practical, actionable tips to clue your workers in on safety
• Washington Watch, offering an advance look at what’s coming down the compliance pike so that you can be ready when it comes
• From the States summary, presenting little-publicized state regs that often trump the federal
• SafetyWorks monthly reproducible handouts for employees, ready to copy and distribute
• EHS & Your Business insert. A quarterly insert that provides a ready-to-use “selling package” to bring senior management on board with your safety plans, using language they can relate to.

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