Inappropriate Management Behaviors
Safety is too important for supervisors and managers to merely "encourage." They must display and insist on safe behaviors that produce safe conditions.
Failure to do so may produce unsafe employee behaviors and hazardous conditions at all levels of the organization. As a manager’s position and responsibility increase, the impact of their behavior increases as well.
Examples of unsafe management-level decisions and behaviors include:
- Unintended gaps: Inadequate training, unreasonable workloads, poor planning, or other pressures can prevent leaders from developing, implementing, or overseeing effective safety systems.
- Knowing disregard: A supervisor or manager may ignore an established safety requirement or direct an employee to perform work that creates a hazard or exposes the employee without appropriate protection.
The solution to both types of management-level behavior failures is to educate supervisors, managers, and executives on the importance of safety and the need to demonstrate safety leadership.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
5-5. Which is an example of an unintended management contribution to a hazard?
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