# MAN AND SAFETY - SUPERVISION

Department of Defense PIN 27623 MAN AND SAFETY - SUPERVISION DISCUSSES SUPERVISION AND ITS ROLE IN HUMAN ERROR ACCIDENTS. POINTS OUT THAT SUPERVISION RANGES FROM TOP EXECUTIVES TO INDIVIDUALS WORKING ALONE AND THAT ALL SUPERVISORY LEVELS ARE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE. DELINEATES THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A SUPERVISOR IN ATTAINING GOALS, ASSIGNING AND MONITORING TASKS, DELEGATING AUTHORITY, AND UNDERSTANDING SUBORDINATES' BASIC NEEDS. DRAMATIZES SEVERAL ACCIDENTS TO SHOW THE CONSEQUENCES OF POOR SUPERVISION. ILLUSTRATES THE ROLE OF POSITIVE SUPERVISION IN PREVENTING MAJOR MISHAPS.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1963
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.27623)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.