Safety Management Systems OSHA VPP Findings

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You were recently hired as an Occupational Safety and Health consultant for Gemstone Fabricators, which is a medium sized manufacturing facility that makes stainless steel counters, containers, and carts for the food prep and restaurant industries. Several years ago, Gemstone decided it wanted to become an OSHA VPP site. It also wants to send the application to OSHA in the upcoming year. Further, there is a keen interest to align with the ANSI/AIHA Z10 standard.

In going through the application submission materials, you noticed something that threw up a red flag, however. Although there was an accountability requirement specified in front-line workers’ performance evaluation documentation for safety performance, there was no such requirement in the performance evaluation documentation for supervisors, managers, or executives. Your discussions with employees also suggest that, although the employer wants the front-line workers to be heavily involved in the safety effort, they are not always sure exactly what they are supposed to be doing to help move the company’s safety programs forward.

Another issue that concerns you is that the effort to implement a safety and health management systems approach appears to be somewhat piecemeal. You are finding it difficult to identify a clear Plan-Do-Check-Act approach to continuous improvement.

Please compose a two-page document for your client to include your evaluation of these deficiencies along with an explanation of the significance of these problems in relation to the safety and health management systems approach. Your goal is to help the employer understand why these issues need to be attended to prior to submitting your application. In your response, be sure to do the following things:

  • Include an introduction that establishes the issues and provides necessary background information.
  • Assess the importance of establishing safety accountability measures for managers, employees, and safety professionals.
  • Appraise the assignment of safety-related job tasks.
  • Apply the Plan-Do-Check-Act framework to resolve a safety deficiency.

Your paper must be a minimum of two pages, and it should be in APA format. You must use a minimum of one scholarly resource. Any information from this source should be cited and referenced in accordance with APA guidelines.

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Running head: OSHA VPP FINDINGS

OSHA VPP Findings
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OSHA VPP FINDINGS

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OSHA VPP Findings

Cases of mishaps, accidents, and crises are not unusual in a manufacturing industry.
Increase in such cases in the recent past has informed the decision of companies to want to comply
with requirements of VPP, OSHA and ANSI/AIHA among others (Kontogiannis, Leva & Balfe,
2016). This is also the main reason Gemstone wants to become an OSHA VPP site and to align
with the ANSI/AIHA. However, these ambitions of Gemstone are hindered by the fact that the
company has no established safety accountability measures for employees and managers, the
employees do not understand their role in promoting company safety program and the company
does not have a plan-do-check-act program to enable it to move from peace-meal implementation
of safety management system to a holistic implementation of ...


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