Safety committee members must…
- Set a good example. Committee members must set a good example! Committee members must be above average in their safe work habits and their positive attitude about safety.
- Be visible. Names of safety committee members should be posted prominently in their departments. They are the strong right hand to supervisors. Some companies also give safety committee badges to identify their committee members.
- Hold regular meetings. Safety committees must meet formally (usually at least once a month).
- Serve as a sounding board for safety and health activities. Positive management groups ask their safety committees to be sounding boards on proposals for new safety rules, developing changes or additions to personal protective equipment, participate in safety fairs and safety victory days
Duties
Work safely yourself-set the example in the department.
- Attend and actively participate in safety committee meetings.
- Work with your supervisor to eliminate hazardous conditions and unsafe work practices in the department. Speak to your fellow employees if you believe that they are engaged in an unsafe work practice; report things which you feel you can’t handle to your supervisor for further action.
- Investigate with your supervisor recordable case injuries that occur in your department. Participate in Plant Review Committee activities on lost workday case accidents or industrial illnesses in your department.
- Listen to employee suggestions about safety and bring those that appear to have merit to the department supervisor for review.
- Conduct department safety inspections in the first week of each month. Each quarter participate with a plant management member in a facility wide safety audit.