Day 5 Safety Program.ppt

Indications of a Need for a Program An increased rate of injuries, accidents and near misses may signal that a program is needed. If such an increase cannot be explained through engineering methods, training or supervision, then perhaps employees are forgetting or ignoring safety rules, failing to say alert or taking chances. A program to develop and maintain their interest in safety will help to reverse this trend.

Indications of a Need for a Program If housekeeping is deteriorating, protective equipment is not being used and guards are not being replaced, it is time to improve supervisory safety awareness and to promote renewed and increased interest in safety. Incomplete or missing accident reports also indicate decreasing supervisory interest and perhaps even failure of employees to report minor accidents and injuries. Motivation to ensure better reporting is then in order.

Program Objective and Benefits - Help to develop safe work habits and attitudes – but it cannot compensate for unsafe conditions and practices. - Focus attention on specific causes of accidents, although by itself it cannot eliminate them.

- Supplement safety training, yet it cannot be considered a substitute for a good training program.

Program Objective and Benefits - Give employees a chance to participate in accident prevention activities, such as suggesting safety improvements in job procedures. - Provide a channel for communication and cooperation between workers and management because accident prevention is certainly a common meeting ground. - Improving employee, customer and community relations because it is evidence of management’s commitment to accident prevention.

Programs to Maintain Interest in Safety -

Company Policy and Experience Budget and Facilities Types of Operations Types of Employees Basic Human Interest

Safety Stimulating Activities -

Injury Rate Contests In-Plant Contests Council Award Programs Interdepartmental Contests Intra-plant or Intra-departmental Contests Personalized Contests

Other Promotional Methods -

Campaigns Unique Safety Ideas Courses and Demonstrations