Safety committee role & responsibility is defined to considering organization structure, processes and regular tasks to implement safety requirements to secure workplaces.
Overview to Safety Committee Role & Responsibility
The management team is determine the scope of safety requirements that is raise from analysis of information from various department, locations, processes and activities. These are conduct in the workplaces, hence the safety requirements and its scope is require to determine from conducting data analysis. To ensure that all the activities and its risks are cover.
The safety requirements can be apply in the workplace as scope and its procedures are define. The management determine safety requirements and regular tasks are considered for the implement role and responsibility of each personal associated with workplace. Hence the specific tasks are provided to safety committee establish by management for implementation of safety in workplace.
The committee members are equally responsible for the implementation of safety requirements defined as per standards references. That are international standards and internal product / process requirements that conducted various activities accordingly.
See below some general – ordinary safety committee role & responsibility are manage in organization where all the points are provided as general that can use in any type of organization:
General responsibility of committee members:
- To conduct meeting at least once in quarter.
- To share the concerned related to Environment health & safety to top management.
- Report unsafe conditions and suggest corrective actions.
- Review incidents, near misses, Supervisor’s Accident Investigation Reports, claim summaries and loss analysis on a periodic basis.
- Review all serious injuries. Not for fault-finding, but for fact finding to prevent a re-occurrence of the same or similar incident.
- Contribute ideas and suggestions for improvements in safety.
- Work safely and influence others to work safely.
- Make periodic facility safety audits.
- Sponsor and coordinate contests, poster programs, safety drives; etc., and supply other informational materials which can help to promote safer operations.
- Develop, implement, and review written safety programs.
- Build enthusiasm for safety programs.
- Direct involvement with organizational wide safety training.
- Establish dispute resolution procedures.
- Propose and create safety checklists.
- Identifying high-risk job tasks and developing written safe operating procedures.
- Sponsor and coordinate contests, poster programs, safety drives; etc.,
- Identifying high-risk job tasks and developing written safe operating procedures.
* General accountability of committee members:
- Not conducting the safety meeting
- Absent in discuss any point / accident on Environment health & safety
- Avoids taken effective actions for particular issues
- Absent in the meeting
- Not initiate the action relate to Environment health & safety
The Safety requirements compliance is motive and reasons for the establishment of safety committee and role & responsibility is defined accordingly. The safety committee role and responsibility is manage under the environment health and safety system requirements. Hence the all the requirements are consider as per standards system and local government requirements for appropriate units.
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