How is the safety budget structured at your company??
I feel like every company I've worked for has been different. Some companies have a general safety budget that all departments pull from for safety supplies, other companies have safety as a subcategory for each department budget - or a mix of the two.
How are your budgets structured and how do you feel about it?
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What’s a safety budget 😂😂🤣🤣
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I never get a straight answer about a budget, that I don't control. Makes it really hard to plan anything.
Yeah John!
Are you kidding? What is a "Safety Budget?"
In my corporate career they finally got smart and just gave me a credit card! I was one of the first to get one in 2003 because I use to nag so much about buying stuff. My boss put me in first to get off her case so much. If she told me no, I would stay on her! She gave me the card and said I had a $10K monthly spending limit, and no more than $5K on any one thing with out a capital expense form being completed. You have to be careful in that I absolutely could not do any 'funny business!" If a light curtain was $12K I could not have the vendor break it up into smaller chunks! To circumvent my spending restrictions like that was an immediate termination! I had to enforce that policy as a HR Manager!
I tried to create a safety budget once but with 7 corporate entities and they all argue that they do not want to "pay for someone else's" it never was fully accomplished. After 10 years of working here our safety ordering is still piecemeal. Some locations leave more of it up to me when ordering such things as ppe supplies whereas, other locations still order their own. Thus, it's hard to get a true reading on how much we are spending for safety. I have tried to whittle the vendors I use down to a couple to make it a little easier to control. That takes some of the heat off me from our grouchy accounts payable department. And the rest my boss uses his own credit card for and gets reimbursed (my guess is he never wants a company card due to he can get the airline miles.)
Unfortunately my Safety life could be broken down to three seasons:
1. Winter season (can last up to 5-6 months)
2. Summer seasonal season (lasts up to 6 months)
3. Budget preparation meetings (last year round)
This is the first company that I’ve worked for that doesn’t have much of a budget.
As it is City government, I get to pitch ideas I have to increase my budget to our HR Director. Then after that I get to present my requests to the Department Heads & City Administrator.
Kinda sad when you think about it.
Randy