Assess, change, and communicate your safety and health policy:

• Assess whether your actions reflect your policy.
• Make sure managers take visible actions to communicate commitment to safety and health.

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Plan for continuous improvement:

• Review information from program activities to identify and priorities areas of concern.
• Revise or set new goals.

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Create a plan to achieve your safety and health goals:

• Develop an action plan for achieving your goals.
• Communicate your goals and plan.

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Advance roles and responsibilities to support program success:

• Interview people to find out successes and obstacles in fulfilling program roles.
• Update and expand roles and responsibilities.

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Find ways to ensure meaningful participation of workers in the program:

• Assess the current state of worker participation.
• Complete an activity to assess worker participation.

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Find ways for workers to help implement and improve the program:

• Choose activities workers can take part in right away.
• Describe activities, when it will start, and resources needed.

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Find barriers to participation and ways to overcome them:

• Learn why workers hesitate to participate.
• Find ways to remove barriers.
• Follow up to ensure identified barriers have been addressed.

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Improve your ability to identify workplace hazards:

• Go beyond easy-to-find sources of hazard information.
• Identify the hazard identification processes in use now.
• Complete an activity to identify new hazard identification processes and needed improvements.

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Update and improve your incident investigation process:

• Identify and act on opportunities to improve the incident investigation process.
• Challenge common assumption about how and why incidents happen.
• Complete a self-assessment survey activity with workers on why incidents happen.

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Learn from experiences with close calls and near misses:

• Encourage workers to report all close calls.
• Analyze close calls and near misses that occur.
• Use insights from this analysis to improve the way you manage safety and health risks.

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Understand the hazards of rare and nonroutine jobs and situations:

• Use in depth processes to identify nonroutine tasks that pose risks to workers.
• Complete an activity to identify nonroutine tasks through toolbox talks.

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Improve hazard control:

• Begin prioritizing and controlling hazards together as part of an overall process of continual improvement.
• Continue to prioritize identified hazards for control.
• Match control options to the level of risk posed by the hazards.
• Brainstorm and select controls.

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Prepare for, and practice response to emergencies:

• Conduct "what-if" and job hazard analyses to better understand potential emergencies.
• Include potential emergencies from activities of contractors and temporary personnel in the plan.
• Make sure all workers are trained and equipped to respond to emergencies.
• Regularly test the plan and inspect associated controls.

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Keep your hazard control plan updated and effective:

• Continue to add selected controls to your plan.
• Continue implementing the plan according to prioritized hazards.
• Keep the plan updated to reflect changes in the workplace.
• Track tasks needed to implement controls.

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Evaluate control effectiveness and monitor controls:

• With workers, conduct observations and inspections to evaluate control effectiveness.
• Set up a formal system to identify and monitor controls that have degraded.

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Update your training plan:

• Update your training needs assessment to reflect workplace changes.
• Strengthen worker participation in training development and delivery.

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Track progress toward your program goals.

• Improve your suite of metrics with leading indicators.
• Identify and remove obstacles to improving program performance.
• Make sure people at all levels are fulfilling their roles and responsibilities.
• Update your indicators of program performance.

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Look across elements to improve the program:

• Use data you are collecting to spot patterns or trends.
• Consider how shortcomings and improvements in each element can affect other elements and the program as a whole.
• Make program evaluation routine.
• Improve interaction across program elements.

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Improve your communication and coordination with contractors and staffing agencies:

• Evaluate your current communication and coordination plans.
• Formalize your approach to managing contractor/staffing agency activities.
• Develop a contractor guide.

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