(What managers and supervisors need to know)
Managers and supervisors need to:
Accept that they have a responsibility to manage health and safety;
Recognise that health and safety is part of good management;
Take action to ensure good standards of health and safety.
To do this they need to:
Understand the hazards in the work;
Be able to organise or carry out a risk assessment;
Be aware of the ways that risks can be minimised;
Make decisions on how to control risks;
Put across the health and safety message to staff;
Check precautions are put into and remain in place;
Investigate when things go wrong;
Decide how to make improvements.
Reproduced by kind permission of HSE (INDG213)