Corporate Health and Safety: Proven Practices for Cost-Effective Compliance.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Top companies maintain safe working environments by making health and safety a top priority throughout the organization, according to a study from research and consulting firm Best Practices, LLC. Best Practices in Health and Safety Management, profiled in a free summary online at http://www3.best-in-class.com/rr429.htm , details the staffing levels, department budgets and top management practices employed by companies acclaimed for their health and safety practices.

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This comprehensive report explores how health and safety managers maintain safety work environments by staffing their teams appropriately, allocating proper budget resources and assigning roles and responsibilities to different parts of the organization.

--Align company-wide standards with VPP requirements to uniformly measure health and safety progress.

--Facilitate quantitative and process benchmarking between plants.

--Establish a standardized root-cause analysis procedure for all incidents to prevent future accidents from occurring.

--Establish a corporate oversight role to eliminate redundant efforts.

--Tie business unit leaders' compensation to health and safety measurements.

--Expand injury tracking beyond traditional OSHA.

--Develop e-learning training modules and provide corporate-wide access to H&S training.

--Report performance measures over the corporate intranet.

--Compile a database of incident and hazard assessment recommendations to make risk-based safety decisions and track individual plant performance.

The business practices, managerial insights and benchmark metrics in "Best Practices in Health and Safety Management" are drawn from interviews and research at six companies in five industries. The study includes:

--Corporate-level and business unit health and safety department budgets

--Analysis of health and safety department staffing levels

--Health and safety performance measures

--Management practices to develop health and safety goals and standards

--Breakdown of outsourced activities

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