Apart from the normal routine HR function you have been attending, you may look into the possibility of the few following areas to start with:
Wherever Human factor is involved Human Resource Manager plays an important role.
Be a role model to other employees in discipline, implementation of company policy and rules, and impartial decision making, subject to 180 degree evaluation all the time. Do not expect any favors, including kick back / commission for any outsourcing jobs/ contractors (which is a trend now )
Environment Factors
How conducive your employee life inside the work area /Plant site, where he spends most of his time/ many more years to complete, till retirement, healthy.
How they are free / carrying their family burden inside the shop floor while working.
You will find wonders inside the shop floor; some congenital defects in some workmen would put into trouble in production output / at risk behavior jobs, may not have been noticed by Supervisors and Plant Manager while working.
How less / more is the ground contamination / ground water pollution, which we are supposed to leave it for our future generation? How bad the ground / ground water is contaminated. What best can be done to avoid further spillage, contamination.
How bad the severity of the accident usually happening inside the shop floor. How to reduce the severity / or to prevent such accidents.
How Managers / Supervisors are good in their 180 degree evaluation.
Are the Managers / Supervisors are role models in implementing company’s policy and discipline, and establishing discipline in side shop floor without any indiscrimination.
Job rotation wherever required?.
Where you observe partiality, partisanship, unfair preference, preferential treatment, special treatment, preference, favour, one-sidedness, prejudice, bias, inequality, unfairness, inequity, discrimination, positive discrimination, reverse discrimination; More
Togetherness, closeness to informal chemistry
Workplace / toilet/ shelter/ canteen hygiene how effectively implemented, whether it is by direct workmen or contract workmen, without any discrimination, personal favoritism. See that you are satisfied, that you can use such facility when in need.
How good or bad in air pollution and noise pollution, and hazardous substances being handled, by your workmen. Supervisors and others
These are some of the tips, from the iceberg. If you can intervene and suggest positive ways to the top management and make a small dent in organizational culture, you will not only be respected by all from the top to bottom, and you will reach the assumed so called power sought far!