Fall Protection Program Elements
There are at least seven major elements in a successful Fall Protection Program. These seven major elements include:
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- Commitment: All employees - including company executive officers, managers, and supervisors - are committed to making the Fall Protection Program succeed. An employer's attitude toward job safety and health is reflected by his or her employees. If the employer commits serious time and money into the Fall Protection Program, employees will see it and be equally serious about safety.
- Accountability: Everyone in the company, from top management to each employee, should be held accountable for following fall protection policies, plans, processes, procedures and safe work practices. To be held accountable, performance is measured and consequences result. Employee safety performance is evaluated and one of three consequences result:
- It is rewarded. Safe performance is recognized and rewarded in some way.
- It is punished. When justified, unsafe performance should result in some form of reprimand or disciplinary action.
- It is ignored. Yes, ignoring performance is, itself, a consequence.
- Involvement: All employees, including managers and supervisors, should participate in making the Fall Protection Program succeed. Employee involvement helps ensure employees gain some ownership in fall protection procedures and practices, so they're more likely to use them when not being supervised.
- Hazard prevention, identification, and control: Employees anticipate potential fall hazards as they work throughout the day. Their awareness is such that actual fall hazards are identified and reported. Employees are involved in controlling fall hazards by eliminating or substituting the hazards, changing processes and procedures, and using fall protection systems.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
2-2. The purpose of employee involvement in the fall protection program is to make it more likely that employees will _____.
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