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701 Effective Safety Committee Operations
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Developing Effective Recommendations

Convincing Management

Once you have developed effective engineering and administrative controls, the challenge is convincing management to make changes.

Give them an offer they can't refuse!

Management will most likely understand the importance of taking corrective action and readily agree with your ideas.

However, if management doesn't fully understand the benefits, success becomes less likely. Your ability to present effective recommendations becomes even more important.

This module will help you learn how to put together "an offer they can't refuse" by emphasizing the long-term bottom-line benefits of corrective actions.

Why Decision-makers Don't Respond Quickly

When recommendations are not acted upon, it is usually because the decision-maker does not have enough information to decide. To speed up the process and improve the approval rate, you must anticipate the questions decision-makers will ask. The more pertinent the information included in the presentation, the higher the odds of approval.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

7-1. Why do decision-makers sometimes fail to act on safety committee recommendations?