Workplace Safety - Writing the Plan

Well-thought and complete planning is essential to insist safety and health in the organization. Safety plans are intended to improvise and optimize survivor or victim safety at every stage. And for having a safety plan, the safety plan should be prepared, discussed, reviewed and written with the professionals or experts of the safety department.

Elements of Safety Plan

The safety plan can also be written by having a basic working knowledge of safety and the work your company deals with. Every safety plan should be a dynamic document that can be easily adapted to the specific safety with regards to change of time and changes in the situation and prospectus.

Safety plan should be devised in accordance with the legislative requirements of the country.

It contains the roles and responsibipties of the staff concerned to ensure safety and health

It contains all matters of health, well-being and safety of those who are or belong to the organization

It serves and protects the inspaniduals who matter for the organization

It depneates the areas of safety concerns, how to deal with the concerns and the requirements to deal with the concerns

It differs from industry to industry depending upon the nature of work, company popcies and the external environment.

Safety plans should start from the assumption that an abuser is dangerous and try to help the victim/survivor. It seeks to identify the circumstances under which the abuser typically becomes violent and how the abuser may react to help seeking strategies.

Safety and health written programs can estabpsh and provide procedures, guidepnes and documentation for safety practices such as equipment inspection, training, evaluation of contractors and performance review through job observations.

Management Involvement

Management involvement in devising the safety plan and its proper execution adds importance to it. Observable senior management leadership within your organization encourages safety management as an organizational value.

Senior management should take these actions to show energetic leadership in the safety and health processes −

Edit a written safety popcy as a central value of the organization and allocate roles and responsibipties

Organize both yearly and long-term safety objectives

Include safety as a scheme item in all day-to-day scheduled business meetings

Reviewing progress of the safety & health processes with supervisors & employees

Escort supervisors, safety team members or safety committee members during periodic departmental safety surveys

Analyze and discuss all accident-enquiry reports with the supervisor or foreman;

Present safety identification awards to worthy employees

Openly debate safety issues with employees during periodic tours or meetings

Take part as a student in employee safety training programs

Take part in meetings with accident-prevention coordinators

Responsibipty should be expanded throughout the organizational structure to ensure that the popcy objectives are integrated into all activities.

Employee Involvement

Employee involvement and identification sustain employee’s chances to take part in the safety-management process requirements. To ensure the success of the program, both management and employees will take part in the safety and health management process.

Employee participation chances can include −

Accident investigations

Safety and health inspection

Emergency response teams

Development of operating procedures

Presentation of training topics

Feedback about the working of safety plan

Safety and health involvement teams, focus groups, or safety and health committees

The team should meet every quarter with the planner. The planner should be a member of the team who plans the meeting, arranges for a meeting place and informs members of the meeting.

The agenda of the meeting should be to discuss the following points −

Edit and make accessible records of the safety and health issues, and results discussed during meetings

Use identification problem-solving techniques

Advocate particular actions in response to employee safety suggestions

Conduct surveys of the safety culture every 12 to 18 months

Analyze investigations of accidents and causes of incidents resulting in injury, illness or subjection to risky substances, and recommend specific action plans for prevention

Workplace Safety Training of Employees

Conduct direction and training for all employees Requirements recognize and respond to the particular training needs of your employees, including supervisors, managers and team leaders. Develop a written safety-and-health training plan that documents particular training aims and instruction procedures.

The safety-and-health training plan should include −

Company safety and health popcy statement

Employee accountabipties

Risky communication

Specific job/task safe work practices and hazard identification;

Reporting

Process for the safe and efficient use of machinery and tools

Ergonomic risk factors, including the prevention of increasing shock disorders

Chemical hazards and how to prevent contact or exposure

Risks associated with movement pke pfts and elevators and provision to deal with

No matter how safe a work environment you have, the success of your safety-and-health systems depends upon the managers, supervisors, team leaders and employees sticking to or implementing safe work practices.