Employee Involvement
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Employee Involvement Tips
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Believe that you will have a safe and healthful
workplace, whatever it takes
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Show your commitment through leadership
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Communicate clearly to your employees that a
safe and healthful workplace is a condition of
employment
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Tell your employees what you expect of them
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Employee Involvement Tips
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Give employees adequate training and
resources for the job expected of them
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Get as many employees involved in the
process as possible to brainstorm, inspect, etc.
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Put employee safety and health participation
on the clock
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Employee Involvement Tips
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Take your employees’ efforts, suggestions and
concerns seriously
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Make sure employees hear about it when other
employees’ ideas are successful
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Form an Employee Safety Committee
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The committee should be large enough to
represent different parts of your worksite
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Try to have equal numbers of management
and non-supervisory employees on the
committee
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Ensure that the safety and health staff serves
on the committee
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Suggested Committee Activities
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Hold regularly scheduled committee meetings
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Conduct regularly scheduled field and yard
inspections
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Use an agenda so the discussion is value added and
constructive
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
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Take their recommendations and feedback seriously
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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
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Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: Forming an employee safety committee
is a good way to involve employees.
A: True
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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
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Quiz
All Questions True or False
Q: It’s not important to take your
employees’ efforts, suggestions and
concerns seriously.
A: False
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Employee Involvement - Resources
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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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