PAPER: LEADERSHIP SKILLS, SAFETY COMPETENCIES CRITICAL TO SUPERVISOR SUCCESS IN WORKPLACE SAFETY

Frontline supervisors and managers are essential to workplace safety but many companies struggle to involve them in the right way, say experts at global safety firm BST (www.bstsolutions.com). The firm has released a new white paper that describes why frontline leaders are so often underused in safety and offers recommendations for better equipping this level to protect employees. “Supervisors are the closest level of management to the work being done, yet there is little clarity around what safety functions they should be performing, ” says BST president Scott Stricoff. Many