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– KPA CONFIDENTIAL –
10 Priorities for your Safety Program
October 14, 2010
Speakers
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Rob SinghNorthwest District Manager
510-493-7492
Moderator Presenter
Becky RossMarketing Manager
303-228-8753
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Why Safety?
Not Always “Common Sense”
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Ultimately Safety is Relative
Safety Metrics that Make Sense –
Measuring the Costs of Loss
• Total OSHA Recordable Case Rate – Used to
identify average number of recordable injuries per
one hundred employees
• Experience Modification Rate
• Total number of claims per quarter/year?
• Avg. Costs per claim?
• Number of regulatory inquiries, visits in year?
• Number and amount of regulatory fines
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#1 Create Your Safety Team
Power of a Safety Committee
• Too many hats leads to CLUTTER!
• It may be the LAW
• More minds better than one
• Increased efficiency
• Increased leverage to get more done
• Proper identification of ALL the issues
• Management and employee accountability
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What MUST you accomplish in your Safety Team
• Determine a consistent meeting time and place
– Instill accountability for missing meeting
• Have adequate number (3+) of people and departments represented
• Review, Review and Re-Review Safety Suggestions
– Ensure closed loop system of communication
– Document action items
– Reward pro-active behavior
– Consider use of online automated systems
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• Review Injuries, Incidents and NEAR MISSES
– Determine status of existing claims
• Back to work?
• Mod duty?
• Expected claim closure?
– Have an automated investigation and corrective action process to follow up on allincidents and near misses.
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What MUST you accomplish in your Safety Team
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#1 Create a Company Safety Policy From Top Level Authority
• Management Buy In – Safety and environmental
compliance success comes from the top down
Policy should be written with CEO, Owner, GM signature
Training on policy upon new hire and annually
Message should be “accountability”
(everyone responsible for safety in workplace)
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• OSHA required programs necessary to be installed for effective and enforced safety compliance.
– Chemical Safety (Hazard Communication)
– Personal Protective Equipment
– Emergency Response Program
– Lift Safety Compliance
– Fall Protection
– Powered Industrial Trucks
– Respirator Protection
– State Specific (CA –IIPP, etc.)
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#2 Safety Compliance Programs
#3 Safety Communication and Training
• New Hire Safety Training
• Equipment Specific Training
• All necessary required regulatory training
• Ensure Inclusion of non-technical workforce
• Don’t be afraid to mesh with every operational (shop) meeting
• Provide flexibility and resources
– Online/own time training mgt. systems
– Train the trainer
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#4 Hazard Identification and Correction Process
• Must be “closed loop” process
• Have inspection tool (guidelines with regulation)
• Encourage employee participation
• “Change it up”
• Create priority “close time” ranking based on severity, frequency, loss likelihood and “imminent hazard”
• Assign responsibility and enforce accountability on due dates
• Safety team agrees on frequency 1-3 months preferred
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#5 Process and Equipment Risk Assessments/JSAs
• Use formal document to identify hazards with job or work process. Hazards include:
– Heat, Ergonomics, equipment contact, cuts, crushing, cutting, burning, electrocution, radiation, chemical exposure, inhalation, fall.
• Use formal document to identify hazards with all shop equipment. Hazards include:
– Have established and enforced frequency intervals (use maintenance department)
– Hazards include electrical, mechanical systems (crushing, pinching), hot surfaces, chemicals, equipment control systems (location of emergency shutoff) etc.
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#6 Near Miss Identification and Correction
• Also known as the “almost injuries”
• Take each one very seriously!
• Investigate all. Heinrich’s Triangle
• Encourage reporting from ALL employees
• Take action on all legitimate situations
• Heinrich’s Accident Triangle - for every 300 unsafe acts there are 29 minor injuries and one major injury
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#7 Employee Safety Suggestion System
• Make it fun
– Drawings
– Lottery Tickets
• Ensure closed loop process and each legitimate suggestion and corrective action gets communicated back to originating employee
• Utilize priority “close time” ranking systems similar to safety inspection items.
• Allow anonominity
– Online portals, automated emails, suggestion boxes
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#8 Have a BBQ!
The value of safety incentive program cannot be measured!
• Creates peer to peer accountability and behavior based safety policing
• Rewards Based Program
– Safety Bingo, cash, bbq, shortened work day, etc.
• Performance Metrics include days w/o accident, zero lost time injuries, etc.
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#9 Safety Disciplinary Notification Procedure
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• If you have a “carrot” you must also have a “stick”
• Utilize official form
• Ensure part of H.R. policy/handbook
• Communicated in Company Safety Policy/Mission Statement
• Document, document, document! (verbal or written warnings)
• Do not make an example of employee and communicate names (private confidential meetings)
#10 Behavior Based Safety Program
• Based on observations
• Provide BBS team with tools and training
– (job safety observation cards)
• Rotate “observers”
• Provides employee ownership in safety program
• Creates personal and peer accountability
• Employees “police” themselves
• Employees feel part of “team”
• Dramatically increases safety knowledge and competency
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Contact Information
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www.kpaonline.com
866-356-1735
Rob SinghNorthwest District Manager
(510) 493-7492
