The Top 10 Responsibilities of Any Safety Officer

On-the-job accidents represent a serious threat to the physical well-being of your workmen. The safety officer is one who can understand the risk of any unwanted accident and he can manage by executing control measures. Therefore, if you would guide your workmen safely through their daily work, get yourself guided by these precepts:-

1. As it is the fact that the workplace is our next home and fellows or colleagues are our second family, so be sure each of your workmen understands and accepts his personal responsibility for safety.
2. Learn and understand the rules of safety that are required for the work you supervise. Never let it be said that one of your workmen was injured because you were not aware of the precautions required on his Job.
3. Anticipate the risks that may arise from changes in equipment or methods. Make use of the expert safety advice that is available to help you guard against such new hazards.
4. Encourage your workmen to discuss with you the hazards of their work. No job should proceed where forecastable risk is not addressed. When you are receptive to the ideas of your workmen, you tap a source of first-hand knowledge that will help you prevent needless loss and suffering.
5. Instruct your workmen to work safely, as you would guide and counsel your family at home - with persistence and patience.
6. Follow up your instructions to them consistently; see to it that the workmen make use of the safeguards provided.
7. Set a good example by demonstrating safety in your work habits and personal conduct. Investigate and analyze every accident-however insignificant that may befall any of your workmen, where minor injuries go unheeded; a crippling accident may later strike.
8. Investigate and analyze every accident-however insignificant that may befall any of your workmen, when minor injuries go unheeded; a crippling accident may later strike. 
9. Cooperate fully with those in the organization who are actively concerned with employee safety. Their dedicated purpose is to keep your workmen fully able on the job and to cut the heavy toll of accidents.
10. Remember. Not only does accident prevention reduce human suffering and loss, from a practical point of view, it is also a good business practice. Safety, therefore, is one of your prime obligations to your Company, your Fellow Managers, and your Fellow Men.

Objectives for Safety

Safety must be adopted as a core part of any activity performed to get below objectives and the most important cause is for the safety of lives.

• To increase production and to contribute to the economic growth of the company.
• To reduce the cost of the product by avoiding unnecessary overheads.
• To eliminate the waste of labor resources so as to conserve and make the best use of the skilled labor available.
• Humanitarian motives - the desire to be safe and. We realize that accident prevention which is of great importance requires the cooperation of all.

 Safety Officer Skill

1. The Safety Officer must have common safety sense - Must be able to understand the situations of all type
2. Good Communicator - Safety officer should ave command on communication skills because 80% of safety work is to communicate the workers about how to do safety
3. Team Work - Safety officer must be able to create sense of teamwork because safety is not an individual task its teamwork
4.  Conflict management skills - Safety officer must be master of conflict management to create  balance and safe working environment at the worksite
5. Physically and mentally fit - Must have fit five senses to work actively