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75 Module 8: Management Control of Loss Loss Control Management (LCM)

What Makes a Supervisor?
• The supervisor is the management on the front-line.
• Supervisors directly influence the quality & quantity of goods & services produced.

• Supervisor must be an employee relations man, a production man, an instructor, & a quality
control man.
• Supervisor has to be both friendly & at the same time a disciplinarian.

Principal Responsibility of a Supervisor
Whether or not a company has a safety program, the SUPERVISOR has these principal
responsibilities:
• Establish work methods.
• Giving job instructions.
• Assigning people to jobs.

• Supervising people at work.
• Maintaining the equipment & the workplace.
• Instill safety consciousness.
• Educating/teaching the workers.

Reasons Why Loss Control is Vital to Every Manager’s Job

 Managers are responsible for the safety and health of others
 Managing safety provides significant opportunities for managing costs

 Safety/loss control management provides an operational strategy to improve overall
management.

Activities for Managing Control

 Identification of work

 Standards
 Measurement

 Evaluation

 Commendation and Correction
Operations Control = Loss Control

• Operations include every facets of the process involved in ensuring that the product or service is
efficiently produced or provided. Operations control involves making sure that satisfactory results
are achieved.
• The task of the supervisor is to control the operations under his/her area of responsibility. The
better this is done, the better products & quality objectives will be attained. This should also

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