Safety & Health Management

Safety Management Part I: Fundamental Concepts

3 Days - 2.1 CEUs

An excellent basic seminar. This seminar suggests fundamental elements that form an effective safety program. Each element is presented with ideas for successful implementation. Through examples and case studies, a framework for an effective program is built. Sample forms are included. For qualification as a candidate for the Safety Management Certificate, successful completion of an examination at the end of the program is required.

Learning Objectives:

The moral, financial and legal responsibilities of today's safety professional
Effective, proven program elements
Implementation strategies for each element
Suggestions on how to establish accountability for safety efforts
Sample policy statements and performance standards to assist the management team in carrying out its safety responsibilities
Hints on how to "sell" safety to various operating functions
Strategies to control workers' compensation costs
Budgeting

Safety Management Part II: Program Management & Evaluation

2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

The logical follow-up to Safety Management Part 1, this program is designed for the safety professional wishing to strengthen an existing program. Through case studies, measurement techniques are presented with recommendations for implementation. Successful completion of a case study is required for qualification as a candidate for the Safety Management Certificate.

Learning Objectives:

The expanded role of today's safety professional
Effective safety auditing
Impact of the ADA and other strategic management efforts on the safety program
Preparation for deposition, ethics and safe behavior reinforcement

How You Will Benefit: You will learn management strategies that can effectively evaluate your safety programs, as well as action plans for improving your safety programs.

Corporate Safety Management

3 Days / 2.1 CEUs

This is a practical fast-paced, experience-oriented professional development seminar that helps safety directors and managers set a benchmark for daily administrative skills. As safety management increases in importance and bottom line value, safety managers must obtain the "competitive edge" to stay on top in the business world. Ideas are offered on how to make safety a vital part of the overall business process. Numerous breakout sessions will allow you to review your business concerns and hear how other organizations overcame similar adversities. The administrative and management skills discussed in this course will help attendees and their staff become an integral part of the overall management team.

Learning Objectives:

Adjusting to corporate mergers, downsizing, right-sizing and reorganization
Location of the safety function in corporate structure
Obtaining management and non-management buy-in of the safety responsibility
Industry safety networking and its value
Techniques to negotiate in the business world and personal life
Working habits of highly effective safety professionals
How to benchmark your organization's safety and health process

How You Will Benefit: The administrative and management skills discussed in this course will help you relate better and communicate effectively with superiors and other departments. It will increase your value to the whole management team, and ultimately, help to improve bottom-fine concerns within your organization.

Creating Line Management Safety & Health Leadership

1-2 Days / 0.7-1.4 CEUs

This course is designed to provide supervisors and managers with a clear understanding of their roles in managing safety and health in the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

Line management's responsibility and accountability for safety performance
The four (4) reasons why organizations aspire to achieve excellence in safety performance and why line management is crucial to achieving success
The 11 critical elements found in organizations where safety is a value vs. a priority or program
Numerous specific tools supervisors can use to improve safety with their workers and within their workplace.

The course is highly interactive using group and individual exercises to stimulate learning while having fun. It has received excellent reviews in all of the organizations it has been utilized.

Safety & Health For Engineers

2 Days / 1.4 CEUs

Engineers have moral and legal "safety, health, and environmental" responsibilities to employers, workers, product users and the public. They also have an important role in the product quality and economic competitiveness of companies employing them. It makes good economic sense to incorporate "safety and health" activities in engineering practices to meet the moral and legal requirements.

Most engineers graduate with little formal "safety and health" education and "pick up" some knowledge while working in the industry. This is unfortunate since the engineer can greatly contribute to "safety and health" in the workplace by having a basic knowledge of the fundamental concepts of "safety and health," hazards in the workplace and safeguards and controls needed to improve safety and loss prevention.

What You Will Learn:

The importance of "Safety and Health" for engineers
Fundamental Concepts
Laws, Regulations and Standards
Safety Programs, Accident Investigations and Auditing
Process Safety Management Overview
Selection and Management of Contractors
Incident Investigation
Source of Safety and Health Reference Materials Facilities

Learning Objectives:

Explain the methods and priorities of controlling industrial hazards
Explain the elements and purpose of an effective safety program
Explain the differences between regulatory standards and industry consensus standards
List typical hazards and safeguards related to machine guarding, electrical equipment, high noise/vibration, chemicals and other typical industrial safety concerns
Perform a Job Hazard Analysis
Utilize safety and health reference materials to obtain required task specific safety information.

Conducting A Safety Audit

1 Day / 0.7 CEUs

This course will present key issues for conducting effective safety and health audits. It will begin by defining audits and their role and comparing them to other essential safety management components such as inspections. It will then summarize how to set objectives and conduct the planning and design of audits. Effective techniques for auditing and the writing findings will be covered in depth. Also covered will be the management of audit recommendations. OSHA's policy actions on audits will be summarized and how this policy may affect audits and other compliance management issues.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the role of audits in safety program management
Establish objectives--compliance and/or best practice
Plan and design the safety audit
Gather information and interviewing techniques
Evaluate written programs versus actual practice
Establish findings and prepare the report
Learn to make recommendations to management
Discuss OSHA's policy on audits

Emergency Planning And Response

1 Day / 0.7 CEUs

Webster defines an emergency as an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action. An emergency can and does happen anywhere. Yet general businesses don't put emergency pre-planning at the top of the list. We assume that if something happens, we call 911 and they will take care of it.

All industries whether they are the traditional manufacturers of large quantities of materials or the new goods and service industries have the survival of their enterprise in common. Competition has driven our industries from a market-reactive to aggressive proactive planning of manufacturing facilities, locations, and activities based on a number of fiscal parameters. This course provides a basic understanding of the fundamental industrial emergency pre-planning and potential avoidance.

Attendees of this seminar will learn and practice skills necessary to select sections of their facility with highest potential risk and pre-plan them. Investigation of the hazards is the first step to eliminating them. The remainder of pre-planning is directed to optimization of response resources. Attendees are encouraged to bring facility information, layout, etc. for use as class projects.

Intended Audience: This course is designed for supervisors, ESH professionals, facility engineering staff, safety committee members, and others who may respond to accidents or incidents, or who may be responsible for reporting on them.

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate their facility for emergency potential
Estimate resource needs required to reduce risk to acceptable levels
Conduct a needs based "GAP" analysis
Produce an integrated emergency response plan
Exercise to plan to improve it

Process Safety Management

1 Day / 0.7 CEUs

This seminar will overview both the concepts and regulatory requirements of process safety management. Participants will develop an understanding of how to manage process safety to achieve both regulatory compliance and operational excellence. Key OSHA interpretations, citations and common deficiencies will be discussed and participants will learn to integrate process safety management into the overall site safety management system. The impact of EPA's Risk Management Programs rule on process safety will be presented as well as what can be expected from EPA in process safety management enforcement.

Learning Objectives - Attendees completing this seminar will:

Be knowledgeable of the conceptual basis of a process safety management system
Recognize the need for management of process safety
Understand the requirements of the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard, including key OSHA interpretations, and how to build a cost-effective compliance management system
Have insight into how OSHA will look at your facility during an inspection, including major citation areas, and how to prepare for such an inspection
Understand the deficiencies that continue to be identified in required compliance audits and how to address them
Be able to integrate process safety management into your site's overall safety management system and move beyond compliance
Discuss the relationship between OSHA's PSM Standard and EPA's RMP rule

Process Safety Management Awareness

1 Day / 0.7 CEUs

The United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration 29 CFR 1910.119 App C

Process Safety Management standard targets highly hazardous chemicals that have the potential to cause a catastrophic incident. To control these types of hazards, employers need to develop the necessary expertise, experiences, judgment and proactive initiative within their workforce to properly implement and maintain an effective process safety management program as envisioned in the 119.110 standard.

What You Will Learn:

Employee Participation
Process Safety Information
Process Hazard Analysis
Operating Procedures
Training
Contractors
Pre-Startup Safety Review
Mechanical Integrity
Hot Work Permit
Management of Change
Incident Investigation
Emergency Planning and Response
Compliance Audits
Trade Secrets

Who Should Attend:

Managers
Field Supervisors
Technicians
Administrators
Trainers
Auditors
Field Ops
Government Agents
Contractors

Hospitality Safety: Results Beyond Compliance

1 Day / 0.7 CEUs

Learning Objectives:
Attendees will be able to:

Integrate safety in their hospitality operations
Identify the real "loss drivers" in their operations
Communicate safety initiatives for the hospitality industry in terms management can understand
Identify and implement practical and effective means to positively impact the bottom line
Measure their results to prove safety initiatives add value

Seminar Description: This seminar is designed for people who are responsible for safety in a hotel, restaurant or resort. The seminar focus will go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements and address the barriers to successfully implementing injury prevention efforts and minimizing claims that are the real loss drivers for hospitality organizations. Discussion will also focus on statistics that will help make a business case for implementing safety initiatives to protect hospitality employees and guests. Participants will learn how to effectively use internal and external resources to implement initiatives.