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Management Controls
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Managements controls
are a method of reducing exposure to hazards by changing people's
behavior. Management controls involve activities such as establishing
safe work practices; training; safety rules; and personal protective
equipment (PPE).
A key point is that
management controls are only as effective as the commitment of
management to safety. For example, establishing safety procedures,
and then requiring production goals that can only be met by ignoring
the safety procedures, nullifies the benefits of the safety procedures.
Regular evaluation is needed to ensure management controls are
effectively reducing hazards.
Safe Work Practices:
may apply to specific activities or jobs, or to many jobs, or
to an entire facility. Safe work practices are established by
including them in job procedures, through training, through changing
work schedules, through anything that effects behavior.
Safe work practices
also involve activities such as house cleaning, tool maintenance
and implementing a Five
S program.
It is important to
remember the management controls do not control the hazard itself,
they only control exposure to the hazard.
Personal Protective
Equipment: PPE is not a substitute for engineering or other
management controls. PPE should be used when other methods of
eliminating, or avoiding the hazard have been exhausted. PPE is
the last line of protection against hazards.
When PPE must be used
employees should be fully trained in its use; including when it
should be used and when PPE is not appropriate. They need to know
why PPE is necessary and how to maintain it. They should also
know why they need to wear PPE, even though it may be very uncomfortable;
may restrict their ability to do their work; and put additional
stress on them
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