This document provides guidance to supervisors on their safety role and responsibilities. It discusses topics like inspiring safe behaviors, training employees, conducting hazard assessments, and investigating accidents. The key responsibilities of supervisors include setting a good safety example, coaching employees, enforcing safety rules, and ensuring hazards are identified and addressed. An effective safety culture involves developing standards and procedures, providing training, and making safety everyone's priority.

1. SAFETY Role of Superviser

2. Training Topics
• Importance of accident prevention
• Your role as a supervisor
• Inspiring safe behavior
• Training your team
• You set the example!
• Hazard Assessment and Control
• Accident investigation
• Summary
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3. Importance Of Accident Prevention
Loss of production
Accident prevention costs
Re-training costs
Equipment /material damage
Lower morale
Pain and suffering
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4. • Supervisors play a key role
• Supervisors must handle many challenges
• This session reviews these practices to assist
you as a supervisor
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Your Role As A Supervisor!

5. Basic Safety Philosophy
• Every Incident can be avoided.
• No Job is worth getting hurt for.
• Every job will be done safely.
• Incidents can be managed.
• Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility.
• Safety/Best manufacturing practices
• Safety standards, procedures and practices
must be developed.
• Training- Everyone must understand AND meet
the requirements.
• Working Safely is a Condition of Employment

6. Benefits of a Zero Incident Safety Policy
• Safety standards are communicated to all employees.
• Responsibilities for implementing standards are understood and accepted
• Records will document how standards and Best Management Practices
are met.
• Internal management control
• Cost Avoidance
• Improved Quality
• Better Productivity
• Team Building
• Unsafe behavior stands out
• Unsafe behavior is Unacceptable
• Safe Work is influenced through peer pressure
• Consistent planning and task execution

7. • Training your team
• Communicating with
• Role Modeling
• Enforcing the rules
• Coaching your team
• Conducting hazard assessments
• Conducting accident investigations
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Your Role In Accident Prevention

8. Leaders….
• Earn respect
• Respect others
• Are trustworthy
• Communicate clearly
• Provide constructive feedback
• Plan and follow-up
• Develop “people skills”
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Inspiring Safe Behaviors

9. Creating A Safety Culture
• Organizational systems
• Policies and procedures
• Hiring practices
• Training practices
• Physical Environment
• Hazards
• Facilities
• Tools and equipment
• People
• Norms
• Skills and knowledge
• Team characteristics
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10. Coaching Your Team
• Establish clear expectations
• Recognize good performance and behavior
• Council performance and behavior that does not meet
expectations
• Focus on behaviors and not on attitudes
• Role model performance and behavior
• Ask for improvement ideas
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11. Training Your Team
• Be prepared
• Explain what in it for your trainee
• Provide context… how does what they are learning fit into the
“big picture”
• Put task into digestible chunks
• Practice, practice, practice!
• Provide on-going feedback
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12. • Speaks clearly
• Organized
• Approachable
• Patient
• Uses a consistent approach
• Reads their participant(s)
• Knowledgeable
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The Characteristics of a Good Trainer
• Prepared
• Flexible
• Good listener
• Positive attitude
• Makes others feel
comfortable
• Gives positive feedback
• Confident

13. Remember…
I do it normal,
I do it slow,
You do it with me,
Then off you go!
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14. You Set The Example
• Follow all the rules
• Encourage all management to follow all the rules.
• The “little things” count as much as the “big things”
• No exceptions
• Be consistent and don’t play favorites
• Your team will watch you and if your words don’t match your
deeds will ignore your words!
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15. TO be ensured
• Recognition and Awards
• Audits and Surveillances
• Incident Reporting & Investigation
• Lessons Learned
• General Safety SOP’s- Lets discuss

16. Ensure that employees know how to use and
maintain personal protective equipment (PPE)

17. Protecting Employees
from Workplace Hazards
• Employers must protect employees from hazards
such as falling objects, harmful substances, and
noise exposures that can cause injury.
• Employers must:
– Use all feasible engineering and work practice
controls to eliminate and reduce hazards.
– Use personal protective equipment (PPE) if the
controls don’t eliminate the hazards.
• PPE is the last level of control!

19. Hazard Assessment And Control
• Effective Safety and Health Management Systems have a
procedure that is used to identify, assess and control safety and
health hazards. The results of hazard analyses are considered
in determining:
• Interim Measures
• Engineering Controls
• Administrative Controls
• Personal Protective Equipment
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20. Hazard Assessment
• A Hazard Assessment is a written,
formal appraisal of the safety
risks that exist within a
workplace.
• A Hazard Assessment is often
performed by the safety team
during a walk-through.
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21. Job Safety Analysis
• A Job Safety Analysis is an
organized approach that involves
the worker and supervisor or
safety technician taking the
following steps:
• Observing the task
• Breaking the task down into
activities or steps
• Analyzing each step for safety or
operational needs
• Recommending procedures to
meet those needs
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22. Accident Investigation
• Below are the three reasons we
should always investigate an
accident:
• Find the cause
• Prevent similar accidents
• Protect company interests
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23. Accident Investigation Process
• A tried and true accident
investigation process is:
• Control the scene
• Gather data
• Analyze data
• Write the final report
• Implement corrective action
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24. Supervisor’s Legal Responsibilities
• You have an ethical and moral
duty as a supervisor for
workplace safety
• You have a legal duty as a
supervisor for workplace safety
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25. Management’s Specific Responsibilities
• Keep a safe and healthy workplace
• Provide a safe work environment including training, ample protection,
safety equipment and hazard communication
• Evaluate workplace hazards
• Investigate and address safety and environmental hazards
• Follow local, state and government laws regarding safety and the
environment
• Keep accurate records of workplace injuries and illnesses as well as near
misses
• Record medical treatment beyond first aid
• Assign proper personnel to manage the SHMS, including document and
control.
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26. NO IT’S NOT THE END
IT’S JUST THE
BEGINNING