The 3 Biggest Safety Mistakes that New Supervisors Make and How to Fix Them

New supervisors struggle most with these 3 challenges

Front line supervisors are the most important people in your business.

Senior management sets the tone, safety professionals act as a resource, but it’s the front-line supervisors who are responsible for implementation. That implementation covers everything from production, scheduling, and managing employees to executing your safety program.

It’s a huge responsibility, one that most new supervisors are not able to fully grasp until they’ve been at it for a while. Many times, new supervisors get thrown into the role without a lot of prior training and have to learn by trial and error. The problem with this is that when it comes to health and safety, trial and error puts employees at risk.

It’s not the supervisor’s fault, they simply don’t know what they don’t know.

Here are the 3 biggest mistakes I see new supervisors make when it comes to Health and Safety.

1. Thinking that Safety is just “Common Sense”.

Many supervisors (and business people in general) think that safety is just common sens…