Transcript Personal Protective Equipment

THE SUPERVISOR’S ROLE IN
SAFETY
A Safety Prevention Course for Shipyard
Supervisors
This material was produced under grant SH-24897-13-60-F-6 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does
not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply
endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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Training Topics
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Importance of accident prevention
Workers Compensation
Your role as a supervisor
Inspiring safe behavior
Training your team
You set the example!
Hazard Assessment and Control
Accident investigation
Legal Responsibilities
Summary
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Importance Of Accident Prevention
Loss of production
Accident prevention costs
Re-training costs
Equipment /material damage
Lower morale
Pain and suffering
Shipyards Have Many Hazards!
It’s the human thing to do!!
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Worker’s Compensation
• What is worker’s compensation?
• What are the benefits?
• Physician pre-designation
• Avoiding/Reporting injuries
• Fraud
Cash Is One of the Benefits!
• Getting more info on worker’s comp
– www.dir.ca.gov/dwc
• Summary
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What is Worker’s Comp?
• Created Over 85 yrs. Ago to Provide Benefits for Injured
Employees
• Overhauled in 1993 to address soaring premiums and costs.
• Weekly Benefit raised from a max of 330/wk. to 490/wk. (Tax
Free)
• Cash Benefit Paid after 3rd day of inability to work*
• Must accept/reject the claim in 90 days
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What Are The Benefits?
• Medical treatment
• Cash payments
– Temporary Disability payments (Industrial leave etc..)
– Permanent Disability Payments if you can’t completely
recover
• Rehabilitation services
• Death Benefits
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Physician Pre-Designation
• Form must be completed prior to injury
• Allows employees personal physician to treat
• Physician decides:
– What type of what light duty work can be done
– When you return to work
– Refers you to specialists if necessary
• Chiropractors can be pre-designated also*
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Avoiding/Reporting Injuries
• Follow all Safety Guidelines
• Contact Safety Section with Suggestions
– Report Unsafe Working Conditions
– Question Extremely Hazardous Situations
• Report all injuries immediately
– Fill out Minor Injury form for less serious injuries
• Supervisors need to investigate all injuries
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Fraud
• Knowingly files claim for injury that didn’t occur
• Felony
– 5 years State Prison
– $50,000 Fine
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Fraud Consequences
In Fiscal Year 2011 - 2012, the district attorneys reported a total of:
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556 cases opened for investigation
• 132 arrests/162 submissions for prosecutions
• 5,000 convictions
• Potential restitution of $ $361,962,663.
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Worker’s Compensation Summary
• Keep abreast of your rights
• Develop Safe Work Habits
• Never file false claims
Report injuries within 24hrs
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Your Role As A Supervisor!
• 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 In Accident Prevention
• Training your team
• Communicating
• Role Modeling
• Enforcing the rules
• Coaching your team
Communication is Vital!
• Conducting hazard assessments
• Conducting accident investigations
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Inspiring Safe Behaviors
Leaders….
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Earn respect
Respect others
Are trustworthy
Communicate clearly
Provide constructive feedback
Plan and follow up
Develop “people skills”
Leadership!
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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
We All Are Part of Our Culture!
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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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Training Your Team
• Be prepared
• Explain what is 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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The Characteristics of a Good Trainer
• Speaks clearly
• Prepared
• Organized
• Flexible
• Approachable
• Good listener
• Patience
• Positive attitude
• Uses a consistent
approach
• Makes others feel
comfortable
• Reads their participant(s)
• Gives positive feedback
• Knowledgeable
• Confident
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Remember…
I do it normal,
I do it slow,
You do it with me,
Then off you go!
Teaching Golf!
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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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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
Hole in Deck Hazard!
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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.
Supervisor Conducting a
Hazard Assessment!
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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
Example of A JSA Form
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Accident Investigation
• Below are the three reasons
we should always investigate
an accident:
• Find the cause
• Prevent similar accidents
• Protect company interests
A Big Accident!
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Accident Investigation Process
• A thorough accident
investigation process is:
– Control the scene
– Gather data
– Analyze data
– Write the final report
– Implement corrective action
Writing a Final Report
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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
• Cal OSHA/Federal OSHA
How Many Hazards Do You See?
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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 federal 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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Examples of Federal OSHA Criminal
Penalties
• Misdemeanors and death
– $250,000 for the individual
– $500,000 for the corporation
• Knowingly Providing a False Statement
– $10,000 fine
– Imprisonment up to 6 months
Prison!
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Examples of California OSHA Criminal
Penalties
• Knowing or negligent violation
– $5,000 fine
– Imprisonment up to 6 months
• Repeat violation which “creates a real and apparent hazard
– $15,000 fine
– Imprisonment up to 1 year
– $150,000 if a corporation
• Failure to timely abate which “creates a real and apparent hazard”
– $15,000 fine
– Imprisonment up to 1 year
– $150,000 if a corporation
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California Case Study
2 Charged in Workers’ Deaths at Dairy
• In what is believed to be California's first manslaughter prosecution in a farm
case, Patrick J. Faria, a dairyman, and Alcino Sousa Nunes, a dairy foreman,
were charged with the involuntary manslaughter of two workers that fainted
from waste fumes and then drowned in a pool of liquid manure.
• The dairy, Faria, and Nunes were also charged with multiple felony safety
violations including not providing adequate training and respiratory equipment,
and not testing for or eliminating hazardous gases.
• The dairy faced up to a $1.5 million fine, while Nunes and Faria each faced
$250,000 in fines and a maximum prison term of four years, if convicted.
• Nunes entered into a pretrial plea agreement.
• Faria went to trial and was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
(Los Angeles Times, B1, 2/15/03)
(34 O.S.H. Rep. (BNA) 988 (2004))
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California Case Study
Safety Officer, General Manager Charged in 2001 Chico Explosion
• In the second felony case bring pursued by the Worker Safety Circuit
Prosecutor Project, Northern Lights Mechanical and its two employees, Howard
Jacobsen and Bob Derrick, have each been charged with six felony violations
of California Labor Code §6425(a) in connection to a sludge tank explosion.
• Derrick, the on-site safety officer, was charged for his alleged failure to
perform assigned duties, and Jacobsen, the general manager for Northern
Lights, for his failure to ensure that safety standards were adhered to.
• One worker was killed and another was permanently impaired when static
electricity ignited remnant fumes within the tank.
• Both Jacobsen and Derrick face jail sentences of up to 18 years each plus
$2.55 million in fines, but the prosecuting Worker Safety Circuit Prosecutor
Project attorney (Kyle Hedum) has stated that maximum sentences are
unlikely.
• Northern Lights faces $15.3 million in fines and DOSH-proposed penalties of
nearly $250,000.
(Cal-OSHA Reporter, v.29,
n.19, 5/10/02)
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Summary
• Supervisors play a key role in creating a safe
work environment
• Your job is to:
– Inspire your team
– Train your team
– Set the example!
– Conduct hazard assessments
– Conduct accident investigations
• Your legal responsibility is to comply with Federal and California
OSHA regulations – www.OSHA.gov
This material was produced under grant SH-24897-13-60-F-6 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does
not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply
endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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