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800 Introduction to Construction Safety Management
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Responding to Safety and Health Issues

Management in your company should take prompt consistent action when responding to safety and health issues. Doing so will demonstrate their commitment to addressing safety and health concerns and encourage employee participation.

Construction warning signs can warn employees about dangers on the worksite.

Management should respond to employees' reports of actual or potential hazards and any other safety concerns employees might have. There should be an effective process for employees to report such hazards.

The employee reporting a real or potential hazard should be notified by management of the outcome in a timely manner. Reporting hazards should made be without fear of reprimand or any safety reporting process is doomed to failure.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

3-2. Reporting hazards should be _____ or any safety reporting process is doomed to failure.