Supervisor Job Description: Safety Responsibilities

A template you can adapt to communicate safety expectations for supervisors.

To establish accountability, job descriptions should define safety-related functions in terms of discrete and measurable tasks. The Job Description template below, which is based on a description of the Internal Responsibility System in the seminal Hamm Commission Report, isn’t meant as a one-size-fits-all. The tasks it lists are simple and basic, not a complete retinue of safety-related functions. The important thing to take from the template is the approach.