Planning for Workplace Safety

Planning for Workplace Safety for a Single Unique User Course (Online subscription only)
 
 
 
Planning for Workplace Safety
 
Beginning with the Organizational Safety Policy, the company’s Safety Plan shows that Senior Management takes the commitment to worker health and safety seriously. The safety plan provides a system of policies, procedures, and practices to help prevent accidents/incidents gives workers the knowledge to help them create a safe working environment and outlines a consistent methodology for the company’s approach to Health and Safety. It is one of the more important safety documents that a company can produce.
 
 
 
This workshop will give you the foundation to develop your Organizational Safety Plan and take the next step in building your safety culture.
 
 
 
This one-day workshop will help you teach participants:
 
 
 
What a safety plan will include
 
 
How to understand and write an Organizational Safety Policy
 
 
The importance of the Introduction to the Safety Plan
 
 
How to develop a basic Communications Plan for a specific accident/incident occurrence
 
 
Ways to decide on training solutions to common accidents/incidents  
 
 
How to understand and explain the importance and structure of Incident Response Plans and Critical Incident Response Plans
 
 
How to understand Safety Inspections and Safety Audits as methods to identify unsafe conditions and apply corrective action
 
 
How to use a 6S Inspection Checklist to conduct a 6S Inspection
 
 
How to brainstorm policies and procedures that you might find in the Appendix of a Safety Plan
 
 
How to help your organization write, implement, and review a safety plan
 
 
 
 
Course Overview
 
You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
 
 
 
Writing a Safety Plan
 
A safety plan is made up of many components and in this session, learners will be introduced to the basic structure of a safety plan.
 
 
 
Organizational Safety Policy
 
Organizational safety policies communicate senior management’s commitment to worker health and safety. This session teaches the basics of writing an organizational safety policy.
 
 
 
Introduction to the Safety Plan
 
A strong introduction to the safety plan maintains the momentum which is gained from the declaration of safety in the safety policy. This session illustrates the importance of the introduction to the plan.
 
 
 
Communications Plan
 
The communications plan reinforces that every employee is a part of the entire safety process. This session introduces a sample communications plan and allows students to develop part of a plan for a specific incident.
 
 
 
Safety Training
 
Training is important to ensure that everyone is able to identify and address health and safety issues. This session will build upon a look at an employee orientation to decide training solutions to common accidents.
 
 
 
Incident Response Plan
 
Incident Response Plans must be able to deal with every type of accident/incident that can reasonably happen in the workplace. This session explores response plans by developing procedures for the plans.
 
 
 
Safety and Health Inspections
 
These inspections look for unsafe conditions and provide corrective actions. This session shows students methods to identify unsafe conditions and how to apply corrective actions.
 
 
 
Safety Audits
 
Safety audits allow an organization to make minor changes to their safety plans and practices to maintain a safe workplace. This session discusses another method to identify unsafe conditions and apply corrective action.
 
 
 
Appendix
 
A safety plan appendix contains important procedures additional to ones already set out in the plan. This section features a brainstorming session to develop appendix items for a sample safety plan.