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3--Safety Program Organization manager's staff INDUSTRIAL REL SAFETY SUPERVISOR DIVISION MANAGER ----------------- 1--------------------------- 1 MANAGER OF MANUFACTURING SAFETY POLICY COMMITTEE SUPERINTENDENT 1 1 ASST SAFETY SUPERVISOR GENERAL FOREMEN SUPERINTENDENT J ASST SAFETY SUPERVISOR GENERAL FOREMAN | SUPERINTENDENT - ASST SAFETY SUPERVISOR ' GENERAL FOREMEN "L FOREMEN SAFETY OBSERVER FOREMAN FOREMAN SAFETY OBSERVER - FOREMAN FOREMAN SAFETY OBSERVER FOREMAN SAFETY OBSERVER FOREMAN SAFETY OBSERVER - FOREMAN SAFETY OBSERVER FOREMAN SAFETY OBSERVER SAFETY OBSERVER SAFETY OBSERVER LINE ORGANIZATION ___________________SAFETY ORGANIZATION Flc 3--3 --Organization chart showing the direct supervisory type of safety setup for a large company Courtesy Westmghouse Electric Corp plovees, the full-time or pait-time nuise be comes even more significant to the total safety program than she does in a large plant with a medical department She carries more re sponsibility, is in a more strategic spot to be of help m the public lelations aspect of safety, and becomes indispensable, almost in inverse proportion to the lack of medical service pro vided by a licensed phvsician A full-time registered nurse should be consideied for opeiations employing 200 or more persons, where the work is not unusually hazardous The number of employees should not be the determining factor, however Sometimes a nurse is needed where fewer people are em ployed, but the work is hazardous See Chap 56 ter 21, "Occupational Health Services " For improved medical service, small com panies and plants in the same locality can pool the services of a qualified physician Scattered operations Organizations with scattered operations re quiring relatively few employees, as well as scatteied construction operations, face special pioblems of organization Their operations may be seasonal or intermittent and there may not be a sufficiently stable working force to maintain an effective safety organization A manager may need to adapt his program to local conditions, which may be highly variable Reports from numerous companies which