Overview
Workplace accidents and injuries cost corporations millions of dollars and thousands of hours lost every year. They also have a profound, often lifelong impact on workers. Introducing a safety culture into your organization, where safety is valued as an integral part of the business’s operation, not only saves the business time and money, it also builds a committed, loyal, healthy workforce. This course will give you the foundation to start building your safety culture.
Learning Outcomes
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the difference between a safety program and a safety culture
- Use resources to help you understand the regulations in your area
- Launch a safety committee
- Identify hazards and reduce them
- Apply hiring measures that can improve safety
- Explain what a safety training program will involve
- Identify groups particularly at risk for injury and know how to protect them
- Help your organization write, implement, and review a safety plan
- Respond to incidents and near misses
- Understand the basics of accident investigation and documentation
Course Outline
- 4.1: Creating a Safety Committee
- 4.2: The Safety Committee’s First Meeting
- 5.1: The Hazard Identification Process
- 5.2: Hazard Identification for the Acme Widget Company
- 6.1: The Three Methods
- 6.2: Hazard Resolution for the Acme Widget Company
- 7.1: Hiring for Safety
- 7.2: Safety Training
- 11.1: Case Study
- 11.2: Responding to Incidents
- 11.3: Documenting Incidents
- 11.4: Investigating Incidents
- 11.5: Near Misses
