Enforcement of safety discipline

Question Decision of the syndicate

A. NEED FOR SAFETY RULES:

1. Are rules necessary including safety rules to ensure
good performance, orderliness and security in any :
type of activity including manufacturing?
2. Should a supervisor believe in accident prevention :
rather than in the post factor corrections after the
accidents has occurred?
3. Do you think that to make employee follow Safety :
rules is also to motivate employees to work safety.
4. Is it true that whenever an accident occurs, :
there is invariably a breach of safety rule/practice?
5. Educational approach for observance of safety rules :
does result in observance of safety rules by a large
majority of workers. Unfortunately it is only a small
minority which poses problems. If this is true what
should be the approach to this problem of a supervisor?
6. Since good discipline means order and respect for the :
rights of others, do you believe that most of the
employee will endorse and just action taken by
Supervisors to ensure acceptable standards of
performance.
7. What will be the effect of non observance or ignoring of :
safety rules by a few employees, supervisors or managerial
personnel?
8. Almost all supervisors who ignore enforcement of :
safety rules when asked to answer the question
"Are safety rules necessary" will say a resounding
“Yes“. Why this contradiction.
9. Do safety rules achieve something good :

B.WHY SAFETY RULES ARE NOT FOLLOWED :

1. Can rules be at fault? If so, How? :

2. Can employees be at fault? If so how? :
3. Can supervisors be at fault? If so how? :
4. Can anything else be at fault? :

C.TAKING DISCIPLINARY ACTION

1. How will you approach attainment of a pleasant place to :

work efficient production and orderliness? Outline
 your approach step by step.
2. a)Is punitive and disciplinary action synonymous?
b) Does punitive action motivate safety performance.
3. If any supervisor resorts to training and correction
in the case of his employee who does not observe a
safety rule, do you think that is the right think to do.
4. If it is observed that only a small minority keep on
ignoring the safety rules, what sort of action could
you advice in their case?
5. Do you think that selling and education are the
Only factors for safety motivations?
6. If managements establish fair and easily understandable
safety rules,what should they do to secure their
consistent enforcement.
7. At what stage it is advisable to take disciplinary action,
if an employee ignores safety rules?
8. “Example is better than percept”. Has it any relation
in enforcing safety rules?
9. If a safety programme does not give any good result
because employees do not follow safety rules, one of
the following three steps can be taken.
a) The violation can be ignored.
b) Safety standards can be lowered to the point where
c) everybody conforms.
d) Insist on the employee to live up in the rule:

Which step you will recommend?

Assignment: Based on the discussions on the above questionnaire formulate a CODE of enforcement
of SAFETY DISCIPLINE suitable for your organisation and finalise it after discussion with the
representatives of the worker Unions concerned.