Management, Supervision & Leadership
Managers and supervisors have a key role to play in ensuring that work is carried out safely. It is no good instilling the engineers and technicians with ‘good safety practice’ concepts, if these are not supported by their supervisors and managers. The Management Role Line Managers, may be placed in a situation where they may have to compromise between commercial drivers and ‘ideal’ safety practices (both of which are passed down from ‘top management’ in the organisation). The Supervisory Role Supervision may be a formal role or post (i.e. a Supervisor), or an informal arrangement in which a more experienced engineer ‘keeps an eye on’ less experienced staff. The Supervisor is in a position not only to watch out for errors which might be made by engineers and technicians, but will also have a good appreciation of individual engineer’s strengths and weaknesses, together with an appreciation of the norms and safety culture of the group which he supervises. It is mainl...