Unit 7. Lab 1. New Building – Safety Plan
Making safety a priority may be as simple as sending a letter to all employees outlining your plans to make safety as important as quality. Your employees should believe just as strongly as you do in safety.
Hire the safest employees, starting in the interview process. Get a sense of how prospective employees feel about a total commitment to safely. Have they worked in other organizations where safety is a top priority? Always make the prospect aware of the physical demands the job entails.
Review your workers compensation losses and ask your insurance carrier for a list of all of your workers compensation claims for the past 6 years. Look for trends, note the type of injury, the job the employee was performing when hurt, the name of the employee and the equipment or tools being used . Focus on the common causes that are responsible for the greatest number of you claims.
Get all employees involved in the safety effort. Solicit employee suggestions on what they think can be done to prevent accidents and take action on these suggestions.
Many businesses have regulations imposed on them by state and federal agencies. Your state’s insurance department or labor department may have employer requirements related to workers compensation and the provision of medical services OSHA has several volumes of rules and regulations that may affect your business. You should contact your trade association, chamber of commerce or state business and industry council to get a listing of codes and regulations that are specific to your state and industry.

Hazard Identification and control.
The identification of workplace hazards is critical to establishing a workplace safety program. There are a number of reasons to document the hazards that exist in your business.
As the nature of business changes, so do the hazards of the operations For