It is vitally important to understand that everyone has the same goal when it comes to safety. The Safety Committee became so effective at solving problems that they discovered employees were trying to leave the supervisor out of the loop. In order to trust all levels of management, they should all be included in the process. Keeping momentum going Key Points Employees must be empowered to plan, organize, and coordinate their own safety process as their needs dictate. You cannot buy a program and expect it to work at every site.
Every employee is an equal partner in the process.
There is no boss-subordinate relationship, no rank. Each employee has unique skills to bring to the safety team's mutually shared goal of working in a safe manner. Management feels that the culture change has made their job much easier. Empowering the employees to make more decisions has positive results. Employees come to work thinking of working safely and managers have more time to work other issues, confident that safety issues are being handled in a quality manner by the Safety Committee.