1. Supervisory Safety Leadership Best Safety Practice # 6 Departmental Injury Prevention Plans

2. Departmental Injury Prevention Plans & Goals Having a ‘defined and well-communicated ’prevention plan’ is the key: • Defines & established in writing injury & illness reduction/prevention plans & goals • Documents your safety efforts/strategies • Creates a system for trigger prevention activities & measuring effectiveness • Establish & clarify roles & responsibilities

3. Departmental Injury Prevention Plans & Goals What it does: • Empowers employees, create ownership • Forces Evaluation and establishment of techniques to reduce risks • Becomes a catalyst for change • Provides a basis for motivating employees • Drives performance

4. Injury Prevention Plans DepartmentalInjury Reduction Plans • Reduction Plan development: • Identify those 3-5 ‘leading indicators’ in your department with the greatest injury reduction potential (injury drivers) • Apply control measures • Based on past incident investigations • Identified “initial and root causes”, and • “Contributing factors” • Put these leading indicator ‘strategies’ into your annual “Injury Reduction Plan” • MOST IMPORTANT: Be able to ‘measure’ results

5. Departmental Injury Reduction Goals • Goals: • Set a numerical reduction goal • Focused on preventing injuries & Illnesses & create a safe workplace • Focus on ‘behaviors’; unsafe acts & practices • Ensuring compliance • Promoting employee wellness • Minimizing environmental impact • Using ergonomics to reduce stress/strain

6. Exercise #4 Injury Reduction Plans EXERCISE & HANDOUT: Developing an Injury Reduction Plan

7. Supervisor Best PracticesExample Reduction/Prevention Plan Injury Prevention/Reduction Plan

8. Departmental Goals and Strategies Injury Prevention Conclusion: • Departments need ‘defined’ annual “Injury Prevention/Reduction Plans” • Identify “Injury Drivers” • Measure “Leading” not lagging indicator • Select 3-5 ‘leading’ indicators to address • KEY: Be able to ‘measure’ these indicators

9. Injury Prevention FundingBe Smart About Safety funding • Review past approved funding requests for ideas • Review suggested funding requests • http://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/occupational-health-services/bsas/be-smart-about-safety-bsas • Collaboratively work on Injury Prevention solutions with Departmental: • Management and affected employees, • Safety Coordinator, • Safety Advisor, and • Work with other departments; • Occupational Health Injury Prevention Specialist • Risk Management & Disability Management Services • Occupational Biomechanics