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The Principal is responsible for all activities in the school. therefore the Principal is ultimately responsible for ensuring that safety checks and maintenance are done, within the constraints of the budget provided.
Safety Officer:A member of the Command Staff responsible for monitoring and assessing safety hazards or unsafe situations, and for developing measures for ensuring personnel safety. The Safety Officer may have Assistants.
When conducting an experiment in a laboratory environment, the person conducting the experiment and the Instructor or Principle Investigator are responsible for ensuring that appropriate safety procedures are followed.
Operator/owner
The manufacturer is initially responsible for the safety of appliances that he makes and sells. Once appliances are purchased and placed in a workplace, the management of the workplace is responsible for ensuring that each appliance remains in proper working condition. Then the user is responsible for using the appliance properly and for ensuring that all safety devices are in place before it is used. Maintenance people who work on an appliance are responsible for returning it in safe and proper operating condition, or for tagging it, and perhaps locking it out, to prevent use when it is not ready for use.
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply.
Everyone is responsible for ensuring that safe work practices are followed - at Nordstroms and every other place of employment in the US (and elsewhere). Safety trainers are responsible for effectively communicating safe work practices, and the reasons for them, to the employees. Supervisors and Managers are responsible for providing the direction, resources, and expectations that permit safe work practices to be followed, and for applying appropriate discipline to end failure to follow them. Safety experts are responsible for advising management about appropriate process and for calling deviations to their attention. And employees are responsible for following all processes established or required by management, safety and otherwise.
If the company needs its employees to use radioactive materials, the company is responsible for ensuring the employees are adequately trained on radiation safety. Many companies hire outside contractors to do that. Some employ experts, often called Radiation Safety officers, to perform that function and other radiation safety activities.
No, it is not the landlords responsibility. Tenants are responsible for the upkeep of property they are leasing. This includes maintaining the grounds and ensuring safety precautions are adhered to.
Ensuring compliance with safety and health standards is a responsibility of line management.