Supervisor Plays Leadership Role

The Importance of Supervision 

Supervisor briefing to a worker about the job

 On construction sites large and small, on board ship, supervision has a key role to play in preventing accidents. Typical supervisory functions include planning and allocating work, making decisions, monitoring performance and compliance, providing leadership and building teamwork, and ensuring workforce involvement. Supervision is therefore heavily involved in the running of a typical construction project and in particular in ensuring that health and safety is effectively managed.

A work team must have knowledge about the work to do.

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 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has identified supervision as a Performance Influencing Factor when attempting to prevent accidents . It has also been a factor in a number of major high profile accidents in the past, such as the Piper Alpha oil rig fire in 1998 and the explosion and fires at the Milford Haven oil refinery in 1994. The lack of proper provision of supervision also regularly features as an important contributory factor in less well-known accidents, including many of those occurring on construction sites.

A Supervisor monitoring worker

 As a conclusion, Supervisors need to show leadership and they need to set a good example to others in both their actions and attitudes.

A Supervisor should give feedback and communicate with workers