Safety Officer General Procedures and Regulations:

Definition of Safety:
• The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.
Defining Safety:
• The state of being safe, freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.
Purpose of Safety Officer:
• A Safety officer in the workplace is responsible for essential tasks such as conducting
inspections, delivering safety training and meetings, ensuring compliance with
appropriate health and safety legislation.
What Do Safety Officers Do?
• Safety officers are responsible for monitoring activities in the workplace and ensuring
that nobody is violating safety regulations.
• The essential aim of their job is to minimize occupational injuries, accidents, and health
problems.
• Their job requires more than simply watching the behavior of coworkers and correcting
unsafe conduct; they must also provide employees with safety training to ensure that they
are fully aware of safety standards.
• This may involve circulating reading and instructional material on the matter, as well as
running or organizing educational programs.
• Often, a company will have safety policies that are even stricter than governmental
regulations, so it's important for safety officers to know the complete minimum
requirements for their company and to educate staff appropriately.
• Along with inspecting and training colleagues, they may also be required to inspect and
replace safety equipment, which varies depending on the nature of their work.
• They must also be able to manage their fellow employees in case there is a safety
emergency.
• Safety officers can work in a wide variety of fields, not just those involving physical
labor or hazardous work.
• Their hours are typically full-time during a regular working week.
• They must communicate thoroughly with many people, which can include employers,
fellow employees, and trade unions.
• Their work can be either indoor or outdoor, depending on the nature of the industry.
Required accreditation for safety officers can vary depending on the state in which they
work, but a health and safety certification is typically required.
Safety Regulation:
1926.20(b)(3)
• The use of any machinery, tool, material, or equipment which is not in compliance with
any applicable requirement of this part is prohibited. Such machine, tool, material, or
equipment shall either be identified as unsafe by tagging or locking the controls to render
them inoperable or shall be physically removed from its place of operation.
1926.20(f)(1)
• Personal protective equipment. Standards in this part requiring the employer to provide
personal protective equipment (PPE), including respirators and other types of PPE,
because of hazards to employees impose a separate compliance duty with respect to each
employee covered by the requirement. The employer must provide PPE to each employee
required to use the PPE, and each failure to provide PPE to an employee may be
considered a separate violation.
1926.28(a)
• The employer is responsible for requiring the wearing of appropriate personal protective
equipment in all operations where there is an exposure to hazardous conditions or where
this part indicates the need for using such equipment to reduce the hazards to the
employees.
1926.28(b)
• Regulations governing the use, selection, and maintenance of personal protective and
lifesaving equipment are described under Subpart E of this part.

Procedures of Safety:
1. All worker’s before entering the UNICO construction site you must be fully furnished
in your Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
2. For height of every 6 feet is required a safety harness
3. For disobeying the safety protocol and regulations over three times you will be
suspended for three days, if disobeyed a second times you will be suspended for
seven days, also if you disobeyed for the third times you will be ban from the
construction site.

a. Helmet/ Hard Hat

b. Protective Vest
c. Hard Booth/ Steel-Toe Booth
d. Safety glasses
e. Gloves
f. Safety Harness
g. Regular Mask/ Respirator Masks
 Members of health and safety committees
Purpose:
• The main role of the Safety Committee is to help ensure workplace safety. It will
participate in the development, implementation and monitoring of company health and
safety policy and procedures.
• It will carry out training, receive safety concerns from workers and help investigate and
resolve them.
What is a health and safety committee?
• The purpose of the Committee is to oversee, and drive improved performance in, the
strategies, policies, working practices and performance of the Group in relation to health
and safety, ensuring these at least meet or exceed legal obligations, with the objective of
promoting the well-being and safety of the Group's.
• When a safety committee is working effectively, both management and employees
communicate potential safety hazards and prevent these hazards from causing injuries.
Safety committees are usually run by EHS (Environmental Health & Safety) managers
and attended by frontline employees who volunteer to take part.

Safety committee responsibilities:

• Safety committees have several responsibilities, always with the goal of protecting
employees.
• Through specific practices and procedures to deal with identified hazards, these teams
can reduce the probability that workplace injury and accidents will occur. .
• Informing and educating employees about safety standards in the workplace
• Creating, distributing, and updating documents that outline specific workplace safety
practices
• Holding regular safety training for all employees
• Regularly hosting company-wide workplace inspections and safety audits
• Encouraging breaks in the workplace (overworked employees are more likely to get
injured)
• Implementing a reward system for safe behavior
• Reviewing data about the organization’s safety performance
• Discussing recent incidents and finding ways to prevent them from repeating
• Helping to set up company policies on management of change (MOC)
 Ethics in Safety:

Standards

1. HOLD paramount the safety and health of people, the protection of the environment and
protection of property in the performance of professional duties and exercise their
obligation to advise employers, clients, employees, the public, and appropriate authorities
of danger and unacceptable risks to people, the environment, or property.
2. BE honest, fair, and impartial; act with responsibility and integrity. Adhere to high
standards of ethical conduct with balanced care for the interests of the public, employers,
clients, employees, colleagues, and the profession. Avoid all conduct or practice that is
likely to discredit the profession or deceive the public.
3. ISSUE public statements only in an objective and truthful manner and only when
founded upon knowledge of the facts and competence in the subject matter.
4. UNDERTAKE assignments only when qualified by education or experience in the
specific technical fields involved. Accept responsibility for their continued professional
development by acquiring and maintaining competence through continuing education,
experience, professional training, and keeping current on relevant legal issues.
5. AVOID deceptive acts that falsify or misrepresent their academic or professional
qualifications. Not misrepresent or exaggerate their degree of responsibility in or for the
subject matter of prior assignments. Presentations incident to the solicitation of
employment shall not misrepresent pertinent facts concerning employers, employees,
associates, or accomplishments with the intent and purpose of enhancing their
qualifications and their work.
6. CONDUCT their professional relations by the highest standards of integrity and avoid
compromise of their professional judgment by conflicts of interest
7. ACT in a manner free of bias with regard to religion, ethnicity, gender, age, national
origin, sexual orientation, or disability.
 8. SEEK opportunities to be of constructive service in civic affairs and work for the
advancement of the safety, health, and wellbeing of their community and their profession
by sharing their knowledge and skills.

Ethics in safety include key words:

1. Personal Respect: You need to respect yourself and surround yourself with people you
can respect.
2. Honor in all things
3. Integrity Be a reliable and true person
4. Customer/employee focus – on incoming visitors
5. Results-oriented but not at the expense of safety The Department of Defense and other
organizations have a slogan that fits this matter perfectly: Mission First, Safety Always
6. Passion for safety
7. Persistence in doing what is right