Principles of Occupational Safety & Health

• How OSHA affects your organization.
• Uses and benefits of recordkeeping to prevent injuries and illness ­ and meet OSHA requirements.
• The reason behind safety inspections and how to effectively plan and conduct them.
• The who, what, when, where, and how of incident investigations.
• The impact of industrial hygiene and HazCom standards on your safety plan.
• Components of the communication process and how to improve the effectiveness of safety messages.
• How to section and reduce:
  • Anticipate recognize, evaluate and control hazards, and determine an acceptable level of risk.
  • Create an effective safety team and facilitate productive safety meetings.
  • Define ergonomics, assess ergonomic risk factors, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Determine when personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used and ways to increase employee acceptance of PPE.
  • Develop an emergency action plan.
  • Use a safety orientation program to improve employee performance and reduce incidents and costs.
  • Implement various employee involvement techniques.

Here's what's new:

• Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
• Employee Involvement
• Safety Training
• Safety Teams and Committees
• Emergency Action Planning
• We've reviewed and updated the whole program, with more emphasis on best practices for implementing and managing a safety management system.
• For your convenience, we now offer POSH two ways: as an intensive four-day course or presented in a series of four one-day courses. Call your local Chapter for details.
• Resource CD now included with more than 75 valuable reference documents, including: Self Inspection Checklist, Job Safety Analysis Form, Causal Factors Checklist, and a variety of OSHA tools and fact sheets.

Course fee includes over $350 worth of reference materials, including Accident Prevention Manual (13th Ed.), Administration & Programs CD; Accident Prevention Manual (13th Ed.), Engineering & Technology CD; Injury Facts CD-ROM; and Resource CD.

4-day course 2.6 NSC CEUs, 2.6 COCs Fee: Member, $1,195; Nonmember $1,550

Pricing and course timespan may vary at some locations, as indicated. Contact the administering office directly for additional information in those instances.