A Good Safety Program Must Meet All Eight of Cal-OSHA’s Standards
A safety program is the foundation of your facilities safety culture. Writing a good safety program is your company’s first step towards being in compliance with Cal-Osha. It contains all the rules and regulations by which your business is based upon concerning your company’s compliance with Cal-OSHA.
Illness and Injury Prevention Programs have now become the central part of most industries and job sites. In most companies across America, one can see the posters that remind employees of their responsibility to follow the company’s policies that promote a safe work environment.
This article explains the eight components which are essential for a good safety program.
- Each company must have a supervisor who will make ensure that all the employees of the company will comply with the company safety program.
- The company safety program must have a way for employees to report unsafe work conditions in the workplace. Your safety program will identify these unsafe work conditions as workplace hazards.
- Your safety program will outline what you have done to correct the workplace hazards.
- Your safety program must include a way to document that you have done the following inspections. Random, Quarterly, Annual.
- The company safety program will provide a way for you to do initial safety training for all company new hires.
- In your safety program, there must be a method of both disciplining and rewarding employees for their safety compliance or on the negative side lack of compliance with the company safety program.
- You must also have a way to report any serious accident that requires an overnight hospital stay, or causes broken bones or disfigurement.
- Your company safety program must also include a statement that you will post all required OSHA and Cal-OSHA postings.
When a company finds a violation of the company safety program, the hazardous conditions must be inspected and abated, and the unsafe conduct that caused the violation corrected, and disciplined so that in future days this kind of violation will be avoided. That above actions will diminish future accidents and thus help ensure the safety of all company employees.
Employers need to have a genuine interest concerning both the health and safety of their employees. Employers and management teams must implement an effective safety program in their companies, not because they have to but because it is the right thing to do.
When employers stand behind the health and safety of their employees and implement a good safety program not because it is the law, but rather because it is the right thing to do, management, then
contributes towards increased production, lower costs and better profits.
All of the above is possible because company management did the right thing and developed and maintains a valuable safety program that could end up being a life saver.
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