Element 04 · EI PSM
Workforce involvement
Purpose
Achieving the high levels of HS&E and process safety performance requires the commitment of the whole workforce.
EI statement
"Management must align, involve and empower the whole workforce in the identification and management of HS&E and process safety hazards."
Integrated reading
Workforce involvement is wider than safety committees and toolbox talks. Grievance routes, engagement surveys and consultation are how the workforce is heard on anything. An organisation that listens on pay and conditions is more likely to be believed when it asks people to raise safety concerns.
Brings in
Grievance policyEngagement and consultation
Placed here by this reading (3)
- Finance & LegalSpeak Up Policy
- HR / PeopleGrievance Procedure · Employee Engagement Survey
Expectations (6)
- 4.1Directors and managers promote an open and trusting environment and understand how their behaviours impact others.
- 4.2Employees and contractors are actively engaged in the improvement of HS&E and process safety performance and have an understanding of process safety hazards, their identification and management/control.
- 4.3Directors and managers engage employees and contractors in two-way communication regarding HS&E and process safety policies, objectives, performance targets, action plans and sharing of lessons learned from inside and outside the organisation.
- 4.4Systematic HS&E and process safety promotion and engagement programmes are in place to continually increase awareness of employees and contractors with regard to HS&E and process safety issues and contribute to the promotion of a culture of openness, transparency, belief, motivation, individual responsibility, participation and commitment.
- 4.5Arrangements for workforce involvement are understood and followed; understanding of arrangements, and compliance with them, are regularly tested.
- 4.6Compliance and performance trends are reviewed by specified levels of management.
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