McQuiston Thomas H, Cable Steve, Cook Linda, Drewery Karen, Erwin Glenn, Frederick James, Lessin Nancy, Ouellette Dan, Scardella John, Spaeth Colin, Wright Mike
USW Health, Safety and Environment Department, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA.
New Solut. 2012;22(3):343-63. doi: 10.2190/NS.22.3.g.
After years of watching company health and safety programs fail to prevent major incidents, injuries, illness, and death in industrial workplaces, union health and safety staff and rank and file activists took up the challenge of creating a union-run alternative program. Named the Triangle of Prevention (TOP), the program successfully engages both local unions and management in incident and near-miss reporting and investigation, root cause analysis, recommending and tracking solutions, and learning and sharing lessons. In all phases, TOP uses a hierarchical, systems-of-safety-based approach to hazard identification, reporting, prevention and control while aiming to engage the union, its members, and all other employees of a worksite. This article explains the foundations and workings of this program, the role of an expansive worker-to-worker training regimen, and the ways in which the program has transformed workplaces.
多年来，工会健康与安全工作人员以及普通积极分子眼看着公司的健康与安全计划未能预防工业工作场所发生的重大事故、伤害、疾病和死亡，于是他们接受挑战，创建了一个由工会运作的替代计划。该计划名为预防三角（TOP），成功地促使地方工会和管理层参与事故及未遂事故的报告与调查、根本原因分析、推荐和跟踪解决方案以及吸取和分享经验教训。在所有阶段，预防三角采用基于安全系统的分层方法进行危险识别、报告、预防和控制，同时旨在让工会、其成员以及工作场所的所有其他员工参与进来。本文解释了该计划的基础和运作方式、广泛的工人对工人培训方案的作用，以及该计划改变工作场所的方式。
