Excerpt: As supervisors know safety is the responsibility of eachperson in charge of others. Top management has the responsibility to providesafety policies, procedures, and rules. Top management must also provide thenecessary means for training, hazard identification, and correcting unsafeconditions. To be sure, each manager and supervisor in the chain of command isheld accountable for the actions of the employees reporting to that manager orsupervisor. That’s the legal obligation that comes with the job. Supervisorsare legally responsible for implementing and enforcing safety policies andprocedures, and rules. When we say legally that means you’re legallyresponsible to the company and to the state in which you work. If the companyhas no written safety rules or procedures, basically you’re off the hook.However, the vast majority of companies do have written safety rules, thereforethe supervisor is expected to faithfully enforce all safety and healthpolicies, procedures, and rules. What happens in the event an employee isseriously injured or killed in the workplace. Perhaps you’ll get an inspectionby OSHA to determine if any safety violations contributed to the accident. Ifthe company was at fault perhaps a monetary penalty will be assessed, nothingto do with the supervisor. Perhaps a serious accident or fatality will triggeran investigation from the local district attorney’s office. They too mayinvestigation the cause of the accident and make a determination….