Responsibilities of Supevisors / Managers
As a leader you must:
- Adhere to employee responsibilities
- Embrace safety as your personal responsibility
- Implement, communicate, and adhere to best safety practices and standards
- Work with EH&S and other key stakeholders to implement the systems, procedures, and tools for improved safety performance
- Educate your units and direct reports about the benefits and expectations of upholding safety practices versus the risks of not
- Engage and utilize Chancellor’s Leadership Group to develop and promote safety practices through avenues like the proposed Risk Management, Sustainability, Health, and Safety (RESH) Advisory Council
- Integrate safety into daily operations and individual job functions (Integrated Safety and Environmental Management System - ISEM)
- Provide your units and direct reports with the necessary communication, funding, and training resourcesto work, act, and be safe
- Empower direct reports at all levels to take individual responsibility and action for safety
- Recognize and reward direct reports for exemplary safety behavior through public praise and verbal acknowledgement
- Identify and correct unsafe acts and conditions and apply disciplinary action when necessary