Employee Involvement

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Employee Involvement Tips

Believe that you will have a safe and healthful workplace, whatever it takes Show your commitment through leadership Communicate clearly to your employees that a safe and healthful workplace is a condition of employment Tell your employees what you expect of them

Employee Involvement Tips

Give employees adequate training and resources for the job expected of them Get as many employees involved in the process as possible to brainstorm, inspect, etc. Put employee safety and health participation on the clock

Employee Involvement Tips

Take your employees efforts, suggestions and concerns seriously Make sure employees hear about it when other employees ideas are successful

Form an Employee Safety Committee

The committee should be large enough to represent different parts of your worksite Try to have equal numbers of management and non-supervisory employees on the committee Ensure that the safety and health staff serves on the committee
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Suggested Committee Activities

Hold regularly scheduled committee meetings

Use an agenda so the discussion is value added and constructive

Conduct regularly scheduled field and yard inspections

Use a checklist Train the committee members to conduct inspections

Involve the committee with helping to solve one or two difficult safety and health problems

Take their recommendations and feedback seriously

Quiz All Questions True or False

Q: You should communicate clearly to your employees that a safe and healthful workplace is a condition of employment.
A: True

Quiz All Questions True or False

Q: Forming an employee safety committee is a good way to involve employees.

A: True

Quiz All Questions True or False

Q: You should strive to have an equal

number of management / supervisory and non-supervisory employees on a safety committee.

A: True

Quiz All Questions True or False

Q: Its not important to take your

employees efforts, suggestions and concerns seriously. A: False

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Employee Involvement - Resources

OSHA VPP Publication: Managing Worker Safety & Health Chapter 4

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LOWER INCIDENTS
No one gets hurt at work through LOWER* incidents.
*(Limiting Oilfield Workers' Exposures and Risks)
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