168Goals in this section can be used with managers, supervi-
sors, and team leaders whose reports deal directly with
workplace health and safety programs and issues.Compliance
■Ensure the handling of hazardous material in compliance
with federal regulations.
■Report hazardous material incidents to appropriate gov-
ernment agency within two days of identifying them.
■Ensure that warnings from inspectors are addressed and
problems are resolved so that the governing organization
takes no further action.
■Reduce government inspection warnings to zero for 2005.
■Eliminate any safety risks that could result in plant shut-
downs.Improvement and Investigation
■Work as a liaison with external investigators to the satis-
faction of those investigators.
■Reduce workplace safety insurance fees by 10% in 2005.
■Reduce accidents requiring hospitalization by 10% per
year.
■Reduce minor accidents requiring nurse’s station involve-
ment by 15% per year.
■Reduce days lost due to accidents to no more than 1% of
total days worked.
■Reduce at-work fatalities to zero by 2005.
■Reduce the incidence of occupational disease by 15% by
2005.
■Develop enhanced systems for collecting accident data, to
allow the development of concrete accident-reduction
strategies.
■Keep and maintain complete, accurate, and timely records
of safety violations and incidents.Workplace Health and Safety—Management
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