|
|
OhioBWC - Employer: (Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation) - Employee involvement and recognition
|
|
Employee involvement and
recognition
|
2. Employee involvement and
recognition: Employee involvement and recognition afford employees opportunities to participate in the
safety-management process.
Requirements
To ensure the effectiveness of your program, both management and employees must participate in the safety
and health-management process.
Employee participation opportunities can include:
- Safety and health involvement teams, focus groups, or safety and health committees;
- Accident investigations;
- Safety and health audits;
- Acting as instructors for safety and health training programs.
Recognition opportunities can include:
- Recognizing employees for excellence in accident prevention;
- Recognizing employees for consistently high contribution to safety and health;
- Recognizing employees for their contributions to continuous improvement through participation in
problem-solving, decision-making or perception surveys;
- Recognizing employees who suggest safety and health improvements or complete safety and health projects.
Implementation
Labor/management safety and health teams facilitate dialogue on safety and health matters between
management and non-management employees. The safety involvement team handles problem solving and decision
making for safety and health issues confronting the company. Team composition includes management and
direct labor employees in roughly equal numbers. Team members represent all areas of the company and
participate as equals. Teams may be natural work groups, associated with a single function area, or
cross-functional and represent a variety of different work areas.
Objectives include:
- Prepare and make available records of the safety and health issues, and outcomes discussed during meetings;
- Use recognized problem-solving techniques, like brainstorming, cause-and-effect diagrams, decision analysis, charting, etc., to reach effective solutions;
- Review investigations of accidents and causes of incidents resulting in injury, illness or exposure to hazardous substances, and recommend specific action plans for prevention;
- Recommend specific actions to take in response to employee safety suggestions;
- Conduct surveys of the safety culture every 12 to 18 months.
The team should meet regularly, but not less than quarterly with the facilitator, a member of the team
who schedules the meeting, arranges for a meeting place and notifies members of the meeting. Rotate
the facilitation role frequently and share responsibility for other team functions among team members.
Record the minutes of each meeting and distribute the minutes to all team members. Post a copy of the
minutes on the company safety bulletin board.
Giving the safety team the responsibility to make decisions and the accountability for implementing
solutions is important. Empower the team to be responsible for developing and implementing effective
safety solutions.
|
back to 10 Step Business Plan
|
|
