Company employing 225 employees in a single facility. In your department, you lead a team of wo HR Generalists and one safety supervisor.

Company employing 225 employees in a single facility. In your department, you lead a team of wo HR Generalists and one safety supervisor. The safety supervisor has a split responsibility of reporting to both you, and the Plant Manager. From what you gather during your onboarding o your new job, the safety supervisor seems to spend a fair amount of time managing the RTW program, by calling doctors, insurance companies, and tracking down employees that are in the program. You’ve also noted that the workforce in the plant is unionized and the employees seem engaged. The facility also has a functional Joint Health and Safety Committee hat meets every month. From a financial perspective, the market the production plant serves is very competitive, and herefore, management continually scrutinizes costs at all levels throughout the organization..especially labor and overhead costs. So, needless to say, financial resources are imited. Your observation of your new boss, the plant manager, is that he is quite stressed with the performance of the plant and doesn’t seem to have time to dive deep into any one situation, regardless of it is production, safety, quality, scheduling – related issues. Therefore, he is quite eliant on his subordinates to deliver the results of their respective mandates. While you’ve observed that your plant manager has an excellent grasp of accounting principles and perational management strategies, you have an intuitive sense that you’ll need to validate lata when it comes to organizational behavior, HR, and safety-related information that he passes long to you. In other words, he is ‘on top of operational issues and understands them well, but hot-so-much when it comes to human resources and safety-related problems. After two weeks of your onboarding and orientation, the Plant Manager has come to you with his concerns about ) the increasing injury rates in the plant, ) the increasing amount of premiums paid to WorksafeBC, and