{"id":721,"date":"2014-10-07T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/?page_id=721"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:28:05","slug":"before-injury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/supervisors\/before-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Before an injury or illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major roles supervisors play in proactively ensuring workplace safety and health fall into four areas.<\/p>\n<h2>Behavior<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Encourage safe behavior<\/strong> \u2014 Continuously encourage safe behavior through positive reinforcement and enforcement of your workplace safety rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discourage unsafe behavior<\/strong> \u2014 Discourage unsafe behavior through employee coaching and feedback. Adopt a management style that does not condone (either spoken or unspoken) risk-taking behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluate performance<\/strong> \u2014 Provide individual employee feedback through assessing their safety behavior during performance evaluations. Set safety performance goals as a part of every annual performance evaluation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discipline<\/strong> \u2014 Use the formal employee discipline process when necessary.<\/p>\n<h2>Analysis and Improvement<\/h2>\n<p>The methods and processes for evaluating the safety and health risks in a workplace can be simple or complex; the important thing is to DO the evaluation, and then improve on it as needed. Be sure to use two people that are valuable in this process: the affected employee and the campus safety manager.<\/p>\n<p>Encourage active safety culture participation by employees. Some ways to do this include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conduct periodic safety meetings with employees.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage self-inspections of the workplace among employees.<\/li>\n<li>Ask employees to report unsafe conditions immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Provide multiple means for employees to bring forward suggestions, concerns, or reportable incidents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evaluate employee safety successes and failures, and discuss these successes and failures routinely with your manager.<\/p>\n<p>Use results from evaluations and analyses to improve work conditions, processes, and procedures.<\/p>\n<h2>Training<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide appropriate training on worker safety and health practices for yourself and your employees.<\/li>\n<li>Retrain if employee behavior indicates it is necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Document the training.<\/li>\n<li>Periodically conduct documented safety inspections.<\/li>\n<li>Use your findings from the inspection to guide new improvements in behavior, targets of future analysis, and topics for training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Inspection<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Periodically conduct documented safety inspections.<\/li>\n<li>Use your findings from the inspection to guide new improvements in behavior, targets of future analysis, and topics for training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major roles supervisors play in proactively ensuring workplace safety and health fall into four areas. Behavior Encourage safe behavior \u2014 Continuously encourage safe behavior through positive reinforcement and enforcement [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/38.768.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-721","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/workers-compensation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}