ABSTRACT

You are the safety professional is a large manufacturing facility. During your weekly safety inspections, an employee asks to talk with you privately. After moving away from the production area, the employee tells you that he is being called names with racial references by his supervisor. The employee states that when he asked the supervisor to stop calling him these names, the supervisor transferred him to the hardest job in the department. The employee expresses to you that he needs this job and doesn’t want to cause any problems. He simply wants the supervisor to stop the name calling and to get moved back to his job. What should the safety professional do?