Question: please post a solution to consider urgently You have just started a new role as the Human Resources Manager for a manufacturing company employing 225


please post a solution to consider urgently
You have just started a new role as the Human Resources Manager for a manufacturing company employing 225 employees in a single facility. In your department, you lead a team of two HR Generalists and one safety supervisor. The safety supervisor has a split responsibility of reporting to both you, and to the Plant Manager. From what you gather during your onboarding to your new job, the safety supervisor seems to spend a fair amount of time with managing the RTW program, by calling doctors, insurance companies, and tracking down employees that are in the program. You've also noted that the workforce in the plant is unionized and the employees seem engaged. The facility also has a functional Joint Health and Safety Committee that meet on a monthly basis. From a financial perspective, the market the production plant serves is very competitive, and therefore, management continually scrutinizing costs at all levels throughout the organization....especially labour and overhead costs. So, needless to say, financial resources are limited. I Your observation of your new boss, the plant manager, is that he is quite stressed with the performance of the plant and doesn't seem to have time to dive deep into any one situation, regardless if it is production, safety, quality, scheduling related issues. Therefore, he is quite reliant on his subordinates to deliver results of their respective mandates. While you've observed that your plant manager has an excellent grasp of accounting principles and operational management strategies, you have an intuitive sense that you'll need to validate data when it comes to organizational behaviour, HR, and safety-related information that he passes along to you. In other words, he is on top of operational issues and understands them well, but not so- much when it comes to human resources and safety-related problems. After two weeks of your on-boarding and orientation, the Plant Manager has come to you with his concerns about 1) the increasing injury rates in the plant. 2) the increasing amount of premiums paid to WorksafeBC, and 3) the difficulties associated with getting injured employees to return to work on a timely manner. In your discussion with your boss, you've learned that the accident frequency rate has jumped from 1.89 to 8.45 in just one year, which unfortunately is bringing additional attention from both the corporate office, and WorksafeBC. You've also learned during your recent on-boarding that WorksafeBC has increased their site visits from once a quarter to once a month. You've scanned the safety stats and you can't identify any repeatable patterns of a single type of injury to solely drive up the frequency rate, but noticed that there are a lot of first aid injuries that appear to be from, as the plant manager has said, a lack of common sense. The plant manager has already asked you, "how do you correct behavior when the employees don't behave with common sense?" The plant manager has asked for your strategic advice on how to improve safety performance within the company. Your ideas are to be presented to the executive team in one month in a one hour meeting. You must focus on strategic organizational considerations and not simply transactional tasks. How do you get started? What measurements are important? What actions/programs/activities do you initiate in order to turn the safety performance around? Your writing and suggestions should not be based solely on what you think, but supported through research, benchmarking, and legislative investigationStep by Step Solution
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