Safety Is a People Business

Michael V. Manning

doi:10.5771/9781461624615

Summary

Filled with practical insights, solutions, and tools, this book will help even veteran safety professionals better understand behavioral approaches to safety, improve safety performance and employee involvement, and obtain senior management support. Manning's book presents a simplified, non-technical explanation of the human relations and psychology of safety and uses anecdotes and real-life experiences from the author's own professional experiences.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1997
ISBN-Print: 978-0-86587-597-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-2461-5
Publisher: Government Institutes, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 231
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Management Commitment No access
2. 1. Insurance Costs No access
  2. OSHA Penalties No access
3. Four Categories of Bosses No access
4. Examples on How to Get Support No access
5. Five Questions you Need to Ask Yourself No access
6. Take This Job, Please! No access
1. What the Plant Manager Thinks of You No access
2. Approaching the Plant Manager No access
3. 1. Assist the Safety Director No access
  2. Oversee Line Supervisors No access
  3. The Seven Guidelines for Supervisors the Plant Manager Can Live With No access
  4. Safety Inspections No access
  5. Safety Committee No access
4. Use of Discernment with the Plant Manager No access
1. Seven Guidelines for Line Supervisors No access
2. 1. Accountability of the Line Supervisor No access
  2. Consequences of Line Supervisor Actions No access
  3. Knowledge Required of Line Supervisors No access
3. 1. Responsibility No access
  2. Accountability No access
  3. Consequences No access
1. Two Critical Rules to Follow No access
2. What to do First No access
3. 1. Training No access
4. Three Kinds of Safety Directors No access
5. Pressing the Flesh—Walking the Plant Floor No access
6. What is That Thing-A-Ma-Jig? Learning the Operation No access
7. 1. Is This Safety Related? No access
8. Abe Lincoln Was Right! Trying to Please Everyone is Impossible No access
9. The Bell-Shaped Curve: Learning your Audience No access
1. What you Should Know No access
2. Learning the CFRs No access
3. Elephant Stampedes are Under Which Standard? The General Duty Clause No access
4. Safety Training—Discernment is the Key No access
5. National Safety Council No access
6. Books to Buy No access
7. Register Now. Seating is Limited! No access
8. "We're OSHA Approved" No access
9. You too can be Safety Certified No access
10. 1. Realistic Certification No access
11. Hub Cap Safety: Feel Good Programs No access
1. Hitting your Ceiling No access
2. Just Who are "They" Who Lack the Support? No access
3. "Do The Best you Can."—Educating your Boss No access
4. The Boss's Dozen Responses No access
5. Ten Comments you Don't Want to Hear No access
6. Two Games to Stay Away From No access
1. The "Linkage" Mentality No access
2. Policy and Documentation No access
1. What is a Safety and Health Committee? No access
2. 1. The Original Purpose of the Committee No access
  2. Its Staffing and Structure No access
  3. Support it Receives While Carrying out its Responsibilities No access
  4. Active Participation and Cooperation No access
3. 1. Monitoring Tasks No access
  2. Educational Tasks No access
  3. Investigative Tasks No access
  4. Evaluative Tasks No access
4. Running a Constructive Safety and Health Meeting. No access
1. The Company Oracle No access
2. The Boss's Son No access
3. Running Safety Programs Through HR No access
4. Women as Safety Directors No access
5. Speed Bump Politics No access
6. Prevention Philosophy No access
1. Elimination vs. Containment No access
2. You're the Guy with the White Hat No access
3. Workers' Compensation—Finger Tip Facts No access
4. The Big Red Button—How do you Know they are Hurt? No access
5. 1. Plant Managers No access
  2. First Line Supervisors No access
  3. Line Employees No access
  4. Injured Employees No access
6. "I Never Heard from you Guys" No access
1. Where to Start No access
2. How to Train No access
3. 1. The Learning Exercise No access
4. The Supervisor and Employee Training No access
5. "The Lord is all the Safety I Need" No access
1. 1. Who No access
  2. What No access
  3. When No access
  4. Where No access
  5. How No access
  6. Why No access
2. The Supervisor and the Accident Investigation No access
3. "You're Making Me Look Bad." No access
4. "Now What Happened?" No access
5. "Where did our System Fail?" No access
1. Safety Communication Obstacles No access
2. Organized Communications No access
3. You Can't Hear When You're Talking No access
4. "Do you Understand? ' No access
5. Safety Meetings No access
6. Planning a Safety Meeting No access
7. "Okay, I Think we'll Get Started." No access
8. Dressed for Work No access
1. Two Common Denominators No access
2. Nothing is Real, Unless it's Personal No access
3. "These Things Happen." No access
4. Corporate Responsibility and Accountability No access
5. Every Day in the USA No access
6. Does the American Worker Really Need OSHA? No access
7. Making a Decision No access
1. You and your Boss No access
2. The Plant Manager No access
3. First Line Supervisors No access
4. Line Employees No access
5. Technical Knowledge No access
6. "Nobody Cares" No access
7. The Disciplinary Process No access
8. The Safety Committee No access
9. Company Politics No access
10. Workers' Compensation No access
11. Employee Training No access
12. Accident Investigation No access
13. Communication No access
14. Personal Commitment No access
Appendix A No access Pages 215 - 216
Glossary No access Pages 217 - 220
Bibliography No access Pages 221 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 231