What is your Safety and Health Steering Committee?
As employees with the N.C. Department of Labor, we promote and enforce safety and health regulations throughout North Carolina. Consequently, we are also required to promote and enforce safety and health within our own agency. N.C. Gen. Stat. §95-148, Safety and Health Programs of State Agencies and Local Governments, states:
"It shall be the responsibility of each administrative department, commission, board, division or other agency of the State to establish and maintain an effective and comprehensive occupational safety and health program which is consist with the standards and regulations under this Article."
As Commissioner of N.C. Department of Labor, I invite and encourage each employee to participate and be a part of the Safety and Health Steering Committee which establishes and promotes safety and health for all employees.
What are the goals of the Employee Safety and Health Program?
- To ensure that the department provides each employee with the tools, equipment, knowledge, and training to perform their duties in a manner free of recognized hazards that could cause injury or occupational illness.
- To ensure that the department provides each employee with a place of employment, where owned, operated, or controlled by the department, which is free of recognized hazards that could cause injury or occupational illness
- To ensure that the department has plans to protect employees and remove them from danger during emergency situations.
- To ensure that the department complies with all applicable safety and health laws, regulations, standards, codes, and policies.
- To ensure involvement and ownership of the program by all employees, including review and comment on policies and procedures, and membership on safety committees, limited special issue committees and task forces.