Supervisory Safety Leadership Best Safety Practice

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Supervisory Safety Leadership Best Safety
Practice 3
Supervisory Leadership, Coaching, Motivating
Intervening
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Supervisor Best Safety Practice 12 Human
Aspects

• Know your employees well. Some employees have
  other issues distracting them from concentrating
  on safety and environmental excellence.
• Try to establish
• Positive relationships
• Frequent Interactions
• Stress improved behavior
• Stress proactive injury prevention
• Changing the safety culture 

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Best Practices Supervisory Commitment
Leadership

• Coaching, Intervening, Motivation
• Serving as role model, coach intervening
• Leading communicating at safety meetings
• On the Floor and Walks the talk
• Enforcing safety rules
• Focusing on behavioral safety
• Employee performance includes safe work practice
  expectations

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Supervisor Safety Leadership Role Model

• Be a role model.
• Set the example.
• Use proper technique.
• Dont say one thing and then do another.
• Be genuinely concerned about the employees well
  being (i.e., care) and safety
• Listen to your employees.
• Deliver effective safety presentations.
• Actively participate in safety training.

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Supervisor Safety Leadership Coaching

• Be a coach
• Coaching and recognizing employees is an
  important
• part of your job.
• Create the proper respect for work hazards
• Recognize employees who are doing the job safely
  
• Plan and assign work with injury prevention as a
  
• high priority
• Routinely review and correct employee behaviors

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Supervisor Safety Leadership Intervention

• Intervene
• Intervention is a key part of your job
• Intervene to change or correct behavior
• Identify and correct unsafe acts
• Inform/solicit from employees the safe way to
  perform the job
• Check for employee understanding
• Remember Silence is Consent

Silence is Consent
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Supervisor Best Safety Practice Intervention

• When you intervene, it is important to emphasize
• The importance to the employees safety.
• The importance for the employee to perform tasks
  in a safe manner
• How valuable the employee is
• We all need to take the time to work safe

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Supervisor Safety Leadership Unsafe Conditions

• If an employee feels there is an unsafe or
  working condition, you should
• Determine what the employee feels is unsafe or
  and how to make the job safe.
• Identify a solution acceptable to both.
• Ask the employee to complete the task after
  identifying an acceptable solution and, if
  necessary, schedule a review of the job later.

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Supervisor Safety Leadership Motivation

• Be a motivator
• Positively reinforce employees to encourage safe
  
• behavior
• Consider using a reward system
• Doesnt need to be costly at all

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Employee Motivational Techniquesa Reported by
Employees

• Study of 65 workplace motivators ranked in
  importance
• by employees
• 1 Personal Thanks
• 2 Written Thanks
• 3 Promotion for Performance
• 4 Public Praise
• 5 Morale building meetings
• Note Employees said they only got Personal
  Thanks 58 of the time.
• aSource Dr. Gerald Graham, Wichita State
  University

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Managers and Employees Survey Rankings
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Supervisor Safety LeadershipPutting Recognition
into Practice

• In practice, this means saying
• I saw what you did.
• I appreciate it.
• Its important.
• It makes me feel . . .