Corporate Safety Policy - Essay Example

Get Er Done incorporated believes in a top-down and bottom-up approach to employees' safety and health throughout the organization. However, we also believe strongly that employee safety is a function solely of the employees and as such, we strive to not intervene in the employee's safety decision-making. To achieve our goal of minimal numbers of incidents resulting in injuries although some cannot be avoided we have a goal of no more than 20 injuries in which the employees were seriously injured.  We also have a goal of no more than 10 million in damage to equipment during this calendar year.

To accomplish our stated goals we have developed and adopted the following responsibility and accountability to employees involved in the companies operation.

Assignment of Safety Responsibility:

 Management Responsibility: None

Supervisors Responsibility:  None

Employee Responsibility: In addition to normal work activities employees are expected to develop, enforce, train, inspect, and document any and all safety activities

Employee Accountability:  Employees will be held accountable for all of the above activities.

Benefits of using employees as the focus of safety:

• Employees can make their own work rules
• Employees will be responsible for their own safety
• Employees can monitor employees in a peer-to-peer relationship
• Employees can inspect the equipment
• Supervisors and Management can have more time to focus on other items

 Safety Objectives:

Get Er’ Done Incorporated shall create employee safety and health programming which will be reviewed whenever employees can find time to do so. If changes are to be made it is up to the employee to make sure the changes are done. Employees are to find the time, resources, etc to make any changes. Employees will report all changes at the 5-year corporate meetings in which one employee is invited.

• Accidents resulting in lost time will be evaluated
• Human Resource training will be conducted on timesheets timeliness
• Equipment will be inspected at regular intervals
• Employees will be given large bonuses on low reporting of accidents to supervisors and management
• Employees will focus on production first and safety second

Assignment of Safety Objectives Responsibility:

Employees are expected to develop all forms and required materials for the complete safety objectives. Management and supervisors will continue to focus on production and making widgets in a freaky fast manner and delivering them as fast as possible.

Errors:

What is wrong? If any?

How to correct? Provide specific examples:

1.

Corporate Safety policy

 The policy wholly addresses employee welfare but does not provide strategies for departmental involvement and implementation strategies.

The policy lacks appropriate ways for interagency collaboration.

The policy provides no organizational support or provision for external expert assessments.

Fully embed safety practices in the company’s departmental policies.

Foster collaboration with relevant agencies to discourse critical health and safety concerns.

Harmonize company bylaws in accordance with state safety laws.

Involve the services of an independent consultant to assess the manual and work environment.

2.

Corporate Safety Goals

The goals are vague on mechanisms for hazard reduction at the workplace.

Get Er Done inc. goals lack instruments for worker assistance.

Accordingly, the firm does not provide comprehensive contrivances for ensuring safety at the workplace.

Little focus on employee education to minimize work hazards.

The goals should be precise and manageable. Hence, the firm should provide a detailed mechanism that incorporates employees, employers, and customers’ participation.

Introduce direct interventions to minimize hazards.

Establish tactics that instill health and safety tradition through employee assistance, compliance, complaisant programs, and resilient organizational leadership.

Goals should exploit efficiency and effectiveness through strengthening competencies and infrastructure.

Expand information sharing, outreach, compliance help, and education among members of the same and different sectors.

3.

Responsibility

The manual lacks

·       Management responsibility,

·       Management responsibility and

·       Provides less information about employee responsibility

The policy has no provision for involvement with an external expert.

Provide detailed employer, management, and stakeholder responsibility in the management of safe workstations.

Define clear roles and stipulate accountability requirements among employers, employee, and management.

4.

Safety Objectives

Provides no basis for employee involvement in the pursuit of the objectives

The overall objective should address the provision of agreement assistance, learning facilities, outreach programs, and relevant compliant programs for employers and employees.