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803 Scaffold Safety Program Management
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Commitment

The success of your company's scaffold safety program also depends on the willingness of top management to demonstrate a long-term serious commitment to protect every employee from injury and illness on the job.

Managers will invest serious time and money into effective safety management by developing safety policies, programs, plans and procedures. They will also display leadership through effective accountability and recognition of behaviors and results.

Leadership

For the SSP to be truly successful, employers must understand that the simple expression of tough-caring safety leadership (being tough about safety standards while working with scaffolds because they care about each worker's safety) a result in enormous benefits. The ability to perceive leadership opportunities improves the company's potential to succeed.

Tough-caring leaders also assume their workers, at all levels of the organization, are good people trying to do the best they can with the skills they have.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

1-5. What type of leader assumes their workers are good people trying to the best they can with the skills they have?