Employee Involvement
Introduction
It’s difficult to have an effective safety and health program without developing a corporate safety culture that encourages genuine employee involvement.
As we discovered in the previous module, the employer holds employees accountable for three personal behaviors:
- complying with safety rules,
- reporting workplace injuries immediately, and
- reporting hazards.
We also learned that, although OSHA does not mandate employee involvement in safety committees and making suggestions, employers should encourage them. It makes sense for the company to develop policies that promote employee involvement.
This module will explore effective ways to increase employee involvement in workplace safety. We’ll primarily address effective recognition because, as we learned earlier, we do what we do to either avoid negative consequences or receive positive consequences. Recognition, as a positive consequence, can be quite effective in increasing involvement in safety.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
3-1. Which of the following is a voluntary behavior that should be encouraged by the employer?
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