Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Companies
By Dan Hopwood and Steve Thompson
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2006, John Wiley & Sons, hardcover List Price: $50.00 (Member/Non-Member pricing will be calculated at final checkout.) |
If you are the safety professional in a small or midsized company, how can you make safety a priority on a very tight budget, without any of the bells and whistles that a large company or corporation has? Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies is what you need to help you to create a Workplace Safety Plan, save money on workers’ compensation insurance costs, comply with regulations, and make the workplace safer. Drawing on authors’ fifty years of combined experience as practicing safety professionals, teachers and business managers, this timely book presents practical advice to make workplace safety a priority without it becoming a burden.
No single workplace safety plan will work for every business, but Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies shows you how to create a Workplace Safety Program that has the following components:
- Management commitment and responsibility, such as an organizational policy statement regarding the workplace safety program and delineation of responsibilities of management, supervision and employees
- Employee involvement, including training employees in safety practices, rewarding or disciplining employees for compliance or failure to comply
- Work-site analysis, including when:
- a program is initiated,
- injuries have occurred,
- there has been a process, equipment or material change,
- personal protective equipment needs to be introduced, and
- you learn of hazards in similar businesses
- Hazard recognition and resolution, such as ensuring documentation of hazard correction and control activities and auditing documentation and validation.
- Incident investigations, including review and investigation of near misses, and training in incident investigation
- Training, education and communication, including new worker orientation, generally scheduled and issue-specific safety meetings, and systems for workers to inform management anonymously of workplace hazards and unsafe acts
- Key features include:
- "Best Safety Practices" from successful companies
- "Greatest Lessons Learned in Achieving Safety Success" from top safety professionals
- Needs assessment, a 12-month safety calendar and OSHA form
Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies shows you how to build a consistent and successful safety program so that the safety professional can efficiently grasp the relationship between injuries and illnesses and regulatory mandates and financial management.