Safety in the Workplace

Training Duration: 1 Days

Learning Fields: Safety

Workplace accidents and injuries cost corporations millions of dollars and thousands of hours lost every year.

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 one-day module will give you the foundation to start building your safety culture.

Module Value

This module supports capacity-building programmes by strengthening individual and team performance in institutional and organizational contexts. It can be adapted to public sector institutions, international development projects, and corporate environments, and integrated into broader reform or performance improvement initiatives.

Learning Objectives

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

Core Content Areas

Defining a safety culture
Governing bodies and resources
Getting started
Identifying hazards
Resolving hazards
Taking proactive measures
Identifying groups at risk
Writing a safety plan
Implementing the plan
Incident management
Reviewing the program

Practical Applications

Case-based discussion
Guided exercises
Group reflection
Action planning for workplace application