By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Principles of occupational safety and health management
• How to recognize, evaluate and control hazards, and determine an acceptable level of risk
• How to develop a safety and health management action plan
• Components of safety communication and how to improve safety messages
• Tools and techniques to implement for employee involvement
• Incident reporting, investigation and root cause analysis techniques
• How to develop and manage a job safety analysis process
• How to access, select and implement safety training
• Skills needed to select, build and utilize safety teams
• Reasons for safety inspections and how to plan, conduct and follow up
• How to understand OSHA regulatory requirements
• Fundamentals of industrial hygiene
• Requirements of the hazard communication standard
• How to recognize ergonomic risk factors and develop control measures
• When to use personal protective equipment and how to overcome objections
• OSHA recordkeeping requirements for injuries and illnesses
• How to develop an emergency action plan
• How to utilize a safety orientation program to improve employee performance
• The impact of industrial hygiene and Hazcom standards on your safety plan
• How to determine when personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used

• Principles of Occupational Safety and Health Management
• Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
• Safety Communication
• Employee Involvement
• Incident Reporting and Investigation
• Job Safety Analysis
• Safety Training
• Safety Teams and Committees
• Safety Inspections
• Emergency Action Planning
• Introduction to OSHA

Safety and health managers, coordinators, specialists and other full-time safety practitioners; safety committee members; operations managers; loss control managers; human resource managers; and anyone else with safety and health responsibilities within an organization.