The Safety Director is solely responsible for attending health and safety training.

The Safety Director's role is to plan, organize, and administer the program, establish policy, set goals and objectives, assign responsibility, motivate subordinates, and monitor results.

The Safety Director's main job is to inspect and document all unsafe conditions at the job site.

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What is the role of the Safety Director in a Health, Safety, Environmental and Injury and Illness Prevention Program?

By exempting managers and supervisors from following safety protocols

By maintaining a company commitment to incident prevention by expecting safe conduct on the part of all managers, supervisors, and employees.

How does a company ensure commitment to incident prevention?

Ignoring safety rules, bypassing safety training, and neglecting safety equipment maintenance

Enforcing safety rules, verifying corrective action for safety hazards, conducting site inspections, and leading in company safety policy

Focusing exclusively on job performance but not on maintaining safety standards

What are some key safety responsibilities for managers and supervisors?

Employees are responsible for working safely, both for self-protection and for protection of fellow co-workers.

Employee safety responsibilities are solely limited to reading the Health, Safety, Environmental Manual and Injury and Illness Prevention Program.

Employees are not required to report any safety hazards to the supervisor.

What is the role of employees in maintaining a safe working environment?

Training is provided only once, when a new employee joins the company.

Employee training is provided at various times including when new field employees join, they are given a new job assignment, when new substances, processes, procedures, or equipment that represent a new hazard are introduced, and when management believes that additional training is necessary.

No specific time-frames are established for employee training.

Only through written instructions and procedures

Actual demonstrations of how to do a job safely, having them tell and show how to do the job safely, and follow up to ensure they are still performing the job safely.

Only through constantly monitoring and advising the employees while they are doing their job.

What training methods are often used for effective instruction?

Weekly newsletters and annual safety meetings

New employee safety orientation, periodic safety meetings, written communications, anonymous safety suggestion program

Daily safety meetings and monthly newsletters

What are some of the safety communication methods?

It should be discarded if it's not related to current safety policies

It should be properly answered, either verbally or in writing

It should be left for the safety director to handle

What should take place when a employee-initiated safety suggestion is made?

They will be subject to disciplinary action or dismissal

They will be given a warning and allowed to continue working

What will happen if an employee does not comply with a company's safety rules?

They will be given a Safety Correction Notice and if multiple employees are involved, additional safety training will be held

They'll be asked to leave the job site immediately with no further discussion

They'll be given extra safety equipment to prevent future incidents

What processes may happen if employees or subcontractors are observed performing unsafe acts?

Loss Prevention Self-Assessment, loss analysis of incident trends, incident investigations, employee suggestion

Random inspections by the company's safety director

What are some of the techniques used to identify hazards in the workplace?

Ignore it and wait for someone else to handle the problem

Remove all employees from the area, except those with special training required to correct the hazard

What action should be taken if imminent or life-threatening hazards are identified and cannot be immediately corrected?

Date of inspection, person who performed the inspection, any hazardous conditions noted and steps taken to correct them

Number of injuries that occur during the inspection

Personal observations of each individual employee's safety practices

What information is included in the documentation of a safety inspection?

Potential severity, likelihood of exposure, frequency of exposure, number of employees exposed, possible corrective actions, time necessary to correct

Type of equipment, time, severity of the task, cost

Location, time of day, weather, supervisor's discretion

What factors are considered when evaluating hazards?

Engineering controls, administrative controls, personal protective equipment

Negligence, avoidance, use of safety gear

Whistle blowing, raising concerns, regular breaks

What are the techniques for correcting hazards?

Prevent similar incidents, identify and correct unsafe work practices, identify training needs

Place blame, penalize offenders, establish liability

Analyze equipment condition, study the work process, customer satisfaction

What are the purposes of incident investigations?

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