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617 Managing Safety and Health- General Industry
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More Hazard Control Ideas

Besides the walk-around inspection, other safety programs can be effective in helping to identify and control hazards.

Safety manager asking employee for ideas
Get ideas for safety improvement from employees.

Below are several more examples:

  • The Job Hazard Analysis: The Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) is an important process that helps collect ideas for controlling hazards and developing specific safe job procedures. Remember, workers who are involved with developing JHAs and participating in the other program are more likely to use safe procedures when not being directly supervised.
  • Suggestion program: The employee safety suggestion program is another excellent way to collect ideas from employees. Employees who work every day performing hazardous jobs, or working in hazardous work areas, will gain experience and insight into how the hazards they encounter can be eliminated or controlled.
  • Incident investigation: Although a non-injury incident investigation is technically a reactive strategy conducted after the incident, it’s also a proactive strategy conducted before someone is injured. It not only fixes the hazard, it prevents an injury. Employees who reported the incident may be quite helpful in offering ideas for corrective action.
  • Accident investigation: This strategy is primarily reactive because it’s not conducted until after an injury accident. However, it’s also proactive if it helps prevent future accidents. Employees involved in the accident may be able to give important information leading to root causes. Unfortunately, this strategy is always more harmful to employees and more expensive. That’s why it’s so important to focus on incident investigations.

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3-6. Why is it smart to involve employees in the JHA development process?