supervisory safety leadership best safety practice # 3

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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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Be a role model. – Set the example.– Use proper technique.– Don’t 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.

Supervisor Safety Leadership Role Model

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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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When you intervene, it is important to emphasize:

– The importance to the employee’s 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

Supervisor Best Safety Practice Intervention

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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

• Doesn’t need to be costly at all

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Employee Motivational Techniquesa

Reported by Employees

Study of 65 workplace motivators ranked in importanceby 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

Motivation Employees Managers

Full Appreciation for Job well done 1 8

Feeling “In” on things 2 10

Help on personal problems 3 9

Job security 4 2

Good wages 5 1

Interesting work 6 5

Promotion/Growth 7 3

Loyalty to workers 8 6

Good working conditions 9 4

Tactful disciplining 10 7

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In practice, this means saying:

– “I saw what you did.”

– “I appreciate it.”

– “It’s important.”

– “It makes me feel . . .”

Supervisor Safety LeadershipPutting Recognition into Practice