1. Survival Skills for Supervisors Safety Leadership and Building a Safe Community Presenter: Mark Linsenbigler Environmental Health and Safety   2015  

2. Goals Identify key components of safety leadership
Describe the supervisor’s roles and responsibilities
Provide resources to enhance safety leadership

3. Objective
What can I do at Penn State to be most effective in preventing my employees from getting injured while at work? What resources are available to help me?

5. Penn State “Philosophy of Safety”
Workplace Safety at PSU
Leadership Support
Employee Involvement
Hazard ID & Control
Education & Training
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6. Safety is a Value
Employees support safety cultures when they see visual commitments to safety
Role of supervisor
Safety Commitment reflects
Concern for employees
Regulatory compliance
Ethical obligations
Concern for costs
Direct impact on employee performance

7. Safety Responsibilities
Everyone at Penn State has a role in ensuring a safe community – BUT…
Supervisors play the pivotal role
As supervisor
As employee
As “connector” to others in your work unit
Ensure employees are provided a safe work environment
Safety supervision – can I do it?

8. Responsibilities of the Supervisor
Know rules/policies and enforce them
Maximize worker involvement in recognizing/controlling hazards
Ensure employees understand their safety responsibilities and are held accountable for safety
Ensure employees are provided with appropriate training and/or equipment to perform their jobs safely
Be familiar with GURU Safety Policies
Know resources to assist in safety program implementations
Update unit leadership about safety on a regular basis
Complete the electronic accident report (FROI) as soon as possible
Conduct an investigation of work-related injuries and illnesses

9. Responsibilities of the Supervisor
Day to Day Activities to Support Safety
Lead by Example
Talk about safety within your work unit
Agenda item for staff meetings
Address specific safety issues as needed and discuss them
Be proactive in planning for safety needs
Know who your College/Unit Safety officer is
If something does not look safe, question it
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10. Responsibilities of the Employee
Follow safety policies and procedures
Know hazards associated with work activities
Attend required training
Report unsafe conditions and hazards
Report injuries or accidents to you
Keep you informed of upcoming operations and new equipment
Stop operations posing imminent danger
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12. What is a Hazard?
How can I tell if something is unsafe? What do I do when I identify a safety issue?

13. Is this a Hazard? How is it Corrected?

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23. Is this good or bad lifting technique?

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25. Is This a Hazard? How is it Corrected?

26. Accident Investigation – An Introduction
Accident Unplanned, unexpected event that disrupts normal activity and may or may not result in an injury Accident Investigation Process to determine the cause(s) of an accident

27. Why Investigate Accidents?
Determine the cause of the accident
Create safety awareness
Demonstrate concern for employees
Document facts
Improve work processes
Reduce costs

28. Investigation Basics Who should investigate? Immediate supervisor
Familiar with job & can take immediate action
Assistance from others as needed
Unit safety officer, EHS, management
What should be investigated?
Every accident that happens at work or is work-related should be investigated

29. Investigation Basics (continued)
When should investigation take place?
As soon as possible
Initial focus on treatment of injured
Where should investigation take place?
At the site of the incident whenever possible

30. Investigation Basics (continued)
How are results documented?
First Report of Injury (FROI)
Supplemental investigation form available on EHS website

31. Accident Investigation Scenario

32. Lessons Learned in Managing Safety
Most employees do not come to work with the plan of getting hurt – they need guidance on being safe
Establish effective two-way communications
Timely, frequently, and honestly
Share reports/results with employees
Ensure employees know their safety responsibilities
By the time you hear of a health and safety concern, assume employees have been talking about it
Office activities can have health and safety considerations
Utilize resources for assistance if needed
Empower your employees to identify, report and correct hazards

33. Health and Safety Resources
Guru Safety Policies (SY Section of PSU Policies)
Environmental Health and Safety (24/7/365)
6 Eisenhower Parking Deck
Staff contact names and addresses
EHS Website (
Lessons learned
“Snapshots”
Requirements
Links
Resources

34. Health and Safety Resources (continued)
College/Unit/Departmental Safety Officer
Departmental Safety Committee
Colleagues

35. What can EHS do for you?
Provide safety training/identify training needs
Provide resources to assist you/your work unit enhancing safety
Conduct regulatory compliance audits
Provide safety material for staff meetings
Evaluate potential hazards
Dispose of your hazardous waste
Needles, rechargeable batteries, chemicals
Assist in identifying how to correct hazards

36. “EHS Snapshot”

37. Other Health and Safety Resources
Worker’s Compensation 4th Floor James M. Elliott Building ohr.psu.edu/workers-compensation Occupational Medicine 301 Centre Medical Sciences Building ohr.psu.edu/occupational-medicine

38. Other Health and Safety Resources (cont.)
University Police and Public Safety
Eisenhower Parking Deck
Risk Management
227 West Beaver Ave., 103 Rider Building