SAFETY PROGRAM AND PLANT INSPECTION

A safety program is a plan or outline of activities conducted to promote safety consciousness

among management and workers at work places in order that accidents and/or illnesses can be
eliminated or minimized to the lowest reducible level.

Safety program organization is the method employed by management to assign responsibility

for accident prevention and to ensure performances under that responsibility.

SAFETY PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITY

SUPERVISOR MANAGEMENT
Introduction, Policy
Training,
Leadership

Learn and use

safe work Program
methods, direction and
observe rules Planning

Promote
EMPLOYEE Employee SAFETY DIRECTOR
Interest and
Cooperation

UNIONS

Role of Management in Safety Programming

An effective safety program permits a company to have a working environment in which

operations are conducted economically, efficiently and safely.

This can be achieve basically through control of the working environment and control of
people’s actions. Only top management has the authority to implement such controls.

(7) BASIC ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL SAFETY PROGRAM

A. Management Leadership

Management leadership means that business owners, managers and supervisors…

• Make worker safety and health a core organizational value.

• Fully committed.
 • Provide sufficient resources.

• Visibly demonstrate and communicate their safety and health commitment

• Set example through their actions.

Attitudes Towards Safety In Workplace

• Enforce safe practices.

• Comply with company policies.

• Follow safety instructions.

• Obtain good preventive maintenance of equipment or selection of proper equipment

when purchased.

A policy should basically state that:

• The safety of employees, the public and the company operations are paramount.

• Safety will take precedence over expediency or shortcuts.

• Every attempt will be made to reduce the possibility of accident occurrence.

• Obtain good preventive maintenance of equipment or selection of proper equipment

when purchased.

B. ASSIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY

The management delegates the everyday task of carrying out said policy to the…

• Supervisors

• Foreman/ Foreladies

• Health and Safety Committee

C. MAINTENANCE OF SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS

Protective measures to maintain safe working Conditions within the plant are:

• Operational methods revision to eliminate risks

• Mechanical Guarding

• Isolation of operation or storage

• Use of personal protective equipment

• Proper ventilation

• Proper use and maintenance of tools and equipment

• Sufficient and proper lighting

• Sanitation

• Fire Control Measures

The plant’s health and safety conditions can be appraised by keeping track of the following:

• Regular outline inspection

• Special inspection

• Follow-ups to see if recommendations for health and safety maintenance are met or
carried out

D.) Establishment of Safety Training

Conduct of training courses should be both for supervisors and employees. There are different kinds of
training courses. They are:

 For new employees – to orient and/or familiarize newly hired personnel

 On-the-job training – for those already under the service of the company for some time
 Refresher service to reacquaint “old” personnel
 Supervisory training
 Participation in safety work (off the job, conferences, workshops)

Six Must in Training

1.) Tell the employees WHAT the safety program is

2.) Encourage them to learn, teach and practice safety every WHERE in the plant and off-the-job.
3.) Answer question so they will know WHY safety pays.
4.) Teach WHEN you know they need training.
5.) Make them conscious of WHO benefits all the way.
6.) Show them HOW to do things the safe way.

E.) An Accident Record System

Accident analysis reports on injuries-measurement of results

Records are written account of accident. They:

 Provide the safety director with the means for an objective evaluation of his program
 Identify high-injury rate plants or departments
 Provide information on the causes of accidents which contribute to high-injury rate

Rule 1050 of the Occupational Safety and Health Standards states that establishments are
required to submit reports of work accidents and occupational illness is which resulted in disabling
injuries.

F.) Medical and First-Aid System

Placement examination – treatment of injuries - first aid services – periodic health examinations

The medical department of a company is tasks with the following pertinent activities.

 Conducts pre-employment physical examination for proper physical check-up and proper
placement of workers
 Conducts periodic physical examination of workers exposed to harmful of toxic substances
 Arrange surveys of new operations or processes to know what exposures are detrimental to
health that may be present.
 Establishes a system for assigning injured workers on the kind of job they can handle in spite of
their condition.
G.) Acceptance of Personal Responsibility of Employees

Training – maintenance of interest

Employees too have obligations for a safety program to succeed. Here are some of them:

 Observe a safe practices and procedures

 Have regard at all times for the safety of fellow employees
 Use his knowledge and influence to prevent accidents
 Report to proper authorities any unsafe condition that may call his attention
 Contribute his ideas, suggestion and recommendations for the improvement of working
conditions to achieve maximum safety.
 Participate actively, whenever appointed as full pledge member of the health and safety
committee