Planning for Workplace Safety

A safety policy is one of the most important documents that a company can produce, demonstrating that senior management takes worker health and safety seriously.

This course gives students the tools to craft a practical workplace safety plan.

In this course, students are introduced to developing a safety policy, and then they learn how to introduce a safety plan to employees and how to develop a communications plan. Safety training is covered, along with incident response plans, health and safety inspections, and safety audits. 

Course Topics:

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: Writing a Safety Plan

• Elements of the Plan

Session Three: Organizational Safety Policy

• Policy Statement

Session Four: Introduction to the Safety Plan

Session Five: Communications Plan

• Considerations in developing your Communications Plan
• The Communications Plan

Session Six: Safety Training

• Employee Orientation
• Deciding Training

Session Seven: Incident Response Plan (with Critical Incident Response Plan)

• Why Do We Investigate Incidents?
• Incident Response Plan
• Critical Incident Response Plan

Session Eight: Safety and Health Inspections (with 6S)

• Safety and Health Inspections
• 6S

Session Nine: Safety Audits

• Audit Primer

Session Ten: Appendix

• Recommended Reading List
• Personal Action Plan