• Management should allocate resources for safety and health protection.

While some of the top management involvement will be evident by the fact that the company has a policy and goals that incorporate safety, actions speak louder than words. If top management gives high priority to safety and health protection in practice, others will see and follow. If not, a written or spoken policy of high priority for safety and health will have little credibility, and workers will not follow it.

Plant managers who wear required personal protective equipment in work areas, perform periodic “housekeeping” inspections, and personally track performance in safety and health protection demonstrate that involvement. Another important component is for management to allocate resources. This means giving safety a budget and giving those with safety responsibilities time to do what they need to do. Supervisors need to be trained, and in turn, the supervisors need to have the time to train their workers.

Also, managers and supervisors need to be given the authority to carry out any responsibilities they are given for safety. This means discipline, ordering safety items, or otherwise making changes.