Excerpt: First of all, let’s state there are company policies,procedures, and rules relating to employee safety. They’re usually found in asafety manual. Supervisors must know these policies, and ensure throughtraining and education that all employees know of these rules, procedures, andpolicies. Supervisors, be sure that employees know and understand that theyhave individual responsibility for their behavior and actions. Usually there’sa legal requirement that all employees must be trained in general and specifichazards to which they may be exposed. This must be done before they start thejob. Included in general would be the work they perform, the clothing,footwear, personal protection, the company’s policies on wearing jewlry,machine safety, and guarding. Electrical safety, drug and alcohol policy, andof course safe lifting. Specific hazards relate to machinery and certainprocesses. Hazard communication is training anyone using, storing, handling, ordisposing of chemical and hazardous material. Supervisors must enforce theircompany’s hazardous communication plan by training employees on chemicallabeling requirements, explaining what information is contained on materialsafety data sheets, or MSDS. If an employee contributes to or causes anaccident, action must be taken to ensure the employee is educated in whataction he or she did wrong, how to correct the deficiency….