Supervisory Safety Leadership Best Safety Practice

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Supervisory Safety Leadership Best Safety
Practice 4
Behavioral Safety and Wellness Focus
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• What do you think OSHA says
• causes most injuries ?

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Supervisor Best Safety Practices Safety Behavior

• Unsafe behavior/acts, drive.
• Employee injuries, which drive.
• Employee claims, which drive.
• Workers Compensation costs
• Training is important, but supervision must
  proactively emphasize what truly prevents
  employees from performing jobs in the way they
  were trained.
• Engaging individual employee safety behavior is
  the only way to make significant differences.

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Supervisor Best Safety Practices Concern for
Employees Safety

• A focus on just past injuries/illnesses does not
  drive safety excellence
• Focus on variables having a safety impact
• Eliminating risky exposures
• Increasing safe behaviors
• Identifying injury drivers

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Behavioral Safety

• What are some unsafe acts practices ?
• Not looking before moving, walking, reaching
• Not establishing if equipment is locked out
• Not get assistance lifting a load or using a
  mechanical assist device
• Not wearing the correct PPE
• Jumping from elevated surfaces
• Running
• Twisting, not pivoting
• Just saying work safe is not enough !

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Injury PreventionBehavioral Focus Error States

• RUSHING Exceeding the normal pace
• FRUSTRATION Relationships, equipment, tools,
  conflicts
• FATIGUE Physically or mentally tired
• COMPLACENCY Familiarity, not watching/thinking

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Injury PreventionBehavioral Focus Error
Conditions

• EYES NOT ON TASK Not looking, moving your eyes
  or watching your hands
• MIND NOT ON TASK Not concentrating on the job
• LINE-OF-FIRE Not conscious of location in
  relation to the direction of the hazard
• LOSS OF BALANCE, TRACTION OR GRIP Actions
  resulting in losing balance, traction, or grip

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Injury PreventionBehavioral Focus State Error
Conditions
States
Errors
Increased Risk of Injury

• Eyes not on task
• Mind not on task
• Line-of-fire
• Balance, traction, grip

• Rushing
• Frustration
• Fatigue
• Complacency

Over 90 of all injuries at home, at work or on
the road are caused by these error patterns.
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Injury PreventionCritical Error Reduction
Techniques

• Trigger or self trigger on the state
• Recognize/correct employees making these errors
• Analyze close calls, minor cuts, scrapes etc. and
  learn from them (small error attention to prevent
  big errors)
• What habit do they need to work on ?
• Look at patterns increasing the risk of injury
  (Employee observation)
• Make a conscious efforts to work on employee
  habits (Making common sense, common practice)
• Tool Occupational Health Course on Behavioral
  Safety

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Exercise 3 States-ErrorsReview injury stories

• Review the unsafe practice/act stories
• Establish what Error gt State conditions exist
• Discussion Group Spokes-person

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Supervisor Best Safety Practice Addressing
At-Risk Behaviors

• Supervisors as injury and illness prevention
  leaders
• Understand state-to-error conditions proceeding
  injuries
• Train employees on these errors/states and
  Critical Error Reduction Techniques
• Are familiar with the UC Davis safety
  requirements
• Actively empower employees to take responsibility
  for their own safety
• Promote encourage wellness/conditioning

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Supervisor Best Safety Practice Employee
Conditioning

• Health Wellness Programs

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Supervisor Best Safety Practice Concern for
Employee Health

• Encourage Employees to participate in the
  positive benefits of University Wellness
  programs
• Energy Improvement
• Health Job satisfaction
• Productivity and Presenteeism
• Less Absenteeism and Employee turnover
• Culture (attitude/beliefs/behavior)
• Injury Illness reduction
• Reduced Costs
• 5.00 savings for every 1 on health promotion
• a Aldana, S.G. Financial Impact of Worksite
  Health promotion and methodological Quality of
  Evidence. The Art of health promotion, 1998

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Wellness Programs

• Wellness Portal link being created
• Campus Recreation Health Facilities
• Stretching and mobile fitness program
• Stay Well Program
• Nutrition Farmers Market
• Low-impact Exercise
• Aggies on the Move and Active Aggies