Marysville Municipal Code Art. 2 Roles And Responsibilities

Protecting health and safety on the job and complying with safety regulations are shared responsibilities of the City and its employees. The City Manager is responsible for overseeing the City's policies on safety in the workplace, including the Injury and Illness Prevention Program. The City Manager has designated the Administrative Services Manager to serve as the Safety Program Administrator to administer these policies with full cooperation and assistance of City department heads.

The City will make all reasonable efforts to:

(a) Provide and maintain a workplace that is safe and healthful for its employees and visitors.

(b) Provide information to employees about health and safety hazards.

(c) Comply with workplace health and safety standards.

(d) Require all City departments to make the Injury and Illness Prevention Program available to all employees and to train its employees on its provisions.

Employees in City service are required under these policies to at all times do all of the following as a condition of continued employment:

(a) Remain alert to hazardous conditions and unsafe acts on the job, and to report the same to their supervisors promptly for correction.

(b) Obey all workplace safety and health laws and avoid unsafe, unhealthy practices on the job.

(c) Attend and participate in all safety training sessions as scheduled.

(d) Encourage safe work practices by coworkers and do not interfere with the use of safeguards by others.

(e) Use protective equipment and safety devices, methods and processes intended for the protection of employees and visitors in the workplace.

(f) Do not remove, displace, damage, destroy or tamper with safety devices, safeguards, notices or warnings.

All managers and supervisors in City service are responsible for becoming familiar and complying with the Injury and Illness Prevention Program and specific work procedures and rules that apply to their workplaces and/or areas of responsibility, to include all of the following:

(a) Understanding their responsibilities for enforcing all safety regulations.

(b) Reporting and acting on all hazardous and potentially hazardous conditions.

(c) Ensuring that each worker is provided with, and is using, appropriate safety equipment and protective devices.

(d) Attending training sessions as scheduled.

(e) Ensuring that sufficient time is scheduled for employees to receive safety training provided by their departments or by the City

(f) Ensuring that their new employees attend a required orientation by the Administrative Services Department within one week of beginning their employment in City service.

(g) Supervising and evaluating employee safety performance.

(h) Promptly and thoroughly investigating accidents and near-miss incidents occurring in their workplaces or areas of responsibility in a timely manner, including fully documenting each such incident, identifying the cause(s) thereof and taking corrective actions to prevent recurrences. Copies of all incident reports shall promptly be filed with the Administrative Services Department.

(i) Encouraging employees to report unsafe conditions and practices and to make practical suggestions for correction.

(j) Regularly inspecting work areas for unsafe and potentially unsafe conditions.

(k) Ensure that each employee under his/her supervision is familiar with, has access to, and routinely complies with, the Code of Safe Practices adopted as part of this Chapter.

Under the general direction of the City Manager, the Safety Program Administrator has responsibility for the development and ongoing implementation of the City's Injury and Illness Prevention Program, and shall have the authority to require that all employees in City service comply with its requirements. In carrying out these responsibilities, the Safety Program Administrator has the following duties:

(a) Administering and updating this chapter.

(b) Conducting, or causing to be conducted, a safety orientation for all new employees.

(c) Conducting, or causing to be conducted, citywide safety inspections.

(d) Conducting, or causing to be conducted, periodic audits of the City's compliance with applicable provisions of state occupational safety and health requirements, and reporting thereon to the City Manager.

(e) Prepare such report forms, guidelines and checklists as are necessary or convenient to implement provisions of this Chapter, and require their use by all employees, as appropriate.

(f) Maintaining official records of all accidents and injuries occurring on the job, records of on-the-job injury leave, reports of workers' compensation injury status, and other safety reports and claims' information as necessary to defend the City in cases arising out of job-related injury or illness claims.

(g) As he finds necessary and appropriate, to create a citywide safety committee, to serve as chair thereof, to appoint its members, to convene its meetings and compel attendance by committee members at meetings of the committee.