Do You Get an ‘A" for Accountability?

If you’re reviewing the structure and content of your safety and health process with an eye to improving effectiveness, you might want to take a look at accountability. How much responsibility do managers and employees have for what happens in your workplace?

According to the Vermont Small Business Development Center, accountability links responsibilities to consequences. Accountability also helps employees understand that the organization’s leaders are committed to achieving and maintaining a safe and healthful workplace. It underscores the importance of the safety process and ensures that when worker well being is at stake, there’s no passing the buck.

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Recommendations

The center recommends five ways to strengthen accountability:

1. Employees’ written job descriptions clearly state their safety and health responsibilities.
2. Employees have enough authority, education, and training to accomplish their responsibilities.
3. Employees are recognized and praised for jobs well and safely done.
4. Compliance with safety rules is monitored and enforced, with supervisors the key to making this happen.
5. Employees who behave in ways that could harm themselves or others are appropriately disciplined and retrained.

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