A program without implementation and evaluation will ultimately protect no one, including the owner.
This is the first of a series of articles designed to help organize your thoughts on either constructing or renovating your corporate Safety and Health Program. Most of the industrial and commercial contractors I work with have an SHP in their office bookshelf ... somewhere.
I will refrain from describing most of the programs I’ve reviewed, since this would give them more credit than they probably deserve. Many programs are probably photocopied off another corporation’s written policy, downloaded from an insurer’s Web site, cut-and-pasted from articles in trade magazines, or simply composed of a set of pre-punched, weekly safety toolbox talks published by a firm intent on selling first-aid kits and powdered Gatorade by the pound.