Safety in the Workplace
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’ operation, not only saves the business time and money, it also builds a committed, loyal, healthy workforce. This workshop will give you the foundation to start building your safety culture.
How You will Benefit:
- Understand the difference between a safety program and a safety culture
- Have some resources to help you understand the regulations in your area
- Be able to launch a safety committee
- Understand how to identify hazards and reduce them
- Know some hiring measures that can improve safety
- Understand what a safety training program will involve
- Be able to identify groups particularly at risk for injury and know how to protect them
- Be able to help your organization write, implement, and review a safety plan
- Be better able to respond to incidents and near misses
- Understand the basics of accident investigation and documentation
Programme Outline
- Defining a safety culture
- Governing bodies and resources
- Starting a safety committee
- Identifying and resolving hazards
- Taking proactive measures
- Identifying groups at risk
- Writing a safety plan
- Implementing the plan
- Incident management
- Reviewing the program