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Improving Workplace Safety

In certain industries, each employer must will then report any concerns to the
create a safety and health program known safety director. S/he will then set up or
as "A Workplace Accident and Injury modify existing training programs to
Reduction," or AWAIR, program, as provide adequate personal protection for
required by Minnesota Statute ยง 182.653 those concerned workers. Each job
subd. 8. An AWAIR program must be in location is unique and dynamic, so site
writing and there are five key points supervisors should check worksites daily
that it must address: 1. How the program for compliance with the safety program
will be implemented and then maintained implemented. A Site Safety Checklist is
by managers, supervisors, and employees. an easy way to do this. Because there is
2. How new or existing hazards, a danger of procedures becoming routine,
conditions and operations will be and therefore lax, random inspections and
identified, analyzed, and then reviews should also be carried out
controlled. 3. The method for regularly. Accidents are not completely
communicating the plan to all employees avoidable, however. Site supervisors
that might be affected by work-related should investigate all accidents or
hazards and controls. 4. How, in the near-miss events that occur. Although
event of a workplace accident, the dangerous, these events will help the
incident will be investigated and then supervisor, as well as the safety
what corrective action will take place. director, rework the health and safety
5. The type of enforcement that will be program to provide a safer working
used for safe work rules and practices. environment. Workplace safety should be
Since workplace environments are critically important to a company.
constantly changing and new employees are Employees are one of the most important
hired, the AWAIR program must be reviewed parts of a business, so keeping them safe
and analyzed for effectiveness at least and informed about potential risks and
annually. If workplace safety is a real consequences should be a primary concern.
concern to an employer, this task will Not only do accidents at work affect
not be difficult. Regardless of the job, human lives, but also can affect workers'
employee safety should be reinforced compensation costs, training expenses,
constantly to keep employees at a high productivity, and insurance rates.
level of performance. A healthy workplace Violation of health and safety rules
for all employees should be a primary should be disciplined, while compliance
concern for any company, and should be to the rules should be rewarded. The key
supported by company policy. To always to a successful safety program such as an
reduce the number of accidents and AWAIR, is a clear set of goals and
injuries at a jobsite should always be a objectives for safety and health at the
goal. A safe work environment is not an workplace. These goals should be
individual job, however. It requires understandable, informative, and enforced
cooperation between an employee, his/her throughout the company in order to
co-workers, and management. While prevent accidents and preserve life. Not
employees are the group that is most only will a company benefit from
directly affected by a safety program, preventing these things, but the
the managers and supervisors are the ones employees will have a higher level of
who are responsible for creating and performance knowing how safe their work
enforcing the program. Many companies environment is, and how much the
will have a safety director who is management is concerned with their
responsible for organizing a program such safety.
as AWAIR. Individual employees will The Minnesota twin cities law firm of
report concerns to their supervisors. All Schwebel Goetz and Sieben can provide a
the supervisors and managers of the construction accident lawyer or attorney
company, who are responsible for health to Minneapolis MN construction injury
and safety at each specific worksite, victims.




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