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Strategies and Approaches to Safety Program

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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No employee in the workplace is not often due to the negligence of their own, but also because the understanding of the company, and failing to protect employees if the safety devices work. If possible, reduce the motivation and performance. That’s why every business needs a strategy able to reduce or even eliminate, the incidence of accidents among employees, under the terms of the company. Strategies, the company must implement are:

a. Management must know what happened to determine the forms of protection for workers in an accident. For example, for financial reasons, the employee awareness of safety and social responsibility and then the employee of the company has a minimum level of protection to the maximum.
b. Management can assess whether safety standards at work formally or informally. Formally, each state is appointed in writing executed and monitored in accordance with the regulations. While the call to informal or unwritten agreements and implemented through training and agreements.
c. Management must be active and responsive in developing plans and procedures on safety and health of employees. The proactive management of the means of the continuing need for improving procedures and plans according to the needs of employers and employees. While the sense of reaction, there arises the need for management problems of health and safety behind the incident direction.
d. Management allows the grade level of safety and health is low, as factors in promoting the general public. This means that the company is very concerned about the safety and health.

According to the above strategy, promoted a program that translates between the corporate strategy is a rule with a different approach. This is very dependent on the state of society. It can be divided in general, reduce and eliminate programs from the scene of an accident at work: personal research work, the rules of the rescue safety training, incentive systems, and work.

a. personal document search
Research staff are the characteristics of a particular employee, the estimate of potential safety issues at work: (1) The age of workers is to determine whether age, are generally more reliable than younger or not, (2 ) physical properties such as hearing employees and the potential for accidents of vision tends to affect the level of core employees, and (3) knowledge and awareness of employees about the importance of prevention and rescue of accident . Knowledge of the personal qualities that give employees the company with potential accidents. Then you can prepare from the beginning the company of their prevention.

b. Incentive Scheme
The incentives for employees can offer money, and even a career. In the form of cash for the unit antar weaker competition work in a given period was done, for example, for six months. If You Can Eliminate accidents at the lowest point will be awarded prizes. Another way is the way of career opportunities for employees who can take his accident, or for groups of employees in the unit.

c. Safety Training
Safety in the workplace in general, for employees of the company. Training is usually on the aspects of risk or danger of employment standards and regulations focus on safety and safe behavior at work and dangerous.

d. Safety Rules
Companies must have a kind of guide for rules and regulations on what can and can not be performed by employees in the workplace, contains. The content should give precise instructions on how work was done carefully to ensure maximum protection for the job. At the same time working to explain some of the gaps that may be dangerous individuals and groups of employees and the workplace. In the execution should be carried out through monitoring, discipline and the growth of specific measures for workers, the abandonment of the rule on several occasions.
To implement strategies and programs, there is a systematic approach for integrated management programs for effective health and safety.

Organizational Approach
•  Design a job
•  Develop and implement program policies
•  use of the Health and Safety Commission,
•  coordinates the investigation of accidents.

Technical Approach
•  in the design and implementation of tools
•  testing of work equipment
•  use of ergonomic principles.

Individual approach
•  strengthen the recruitment and motivation of health and safety;
•  Training for health and safety;
• provides awards to employees as incentive programs.