No matter what their job, all industrial employees need to know seven essential things about safely performing their work.
1. Hazards. Employees need to know what could go wrong in their job and injure or make them ill. They need to be able to identify hazards, and they must know the steps they need to take to protect themselves against these hazards. They also need to know how to correct or report unsafe conditions that could lead to an accident.
2. Safety rules and regulations that apply to the job. Your workers should be thoroughly familiar with all your safety and health rules that apply to their job. If there are OSHA regulations that apply to their job as well, these should be explained so that employees understand what they need to do to ensure compliance.
3. Required job skills and knowledge. Employees must know how to perform their jobs properly. This means having the skills and knowledge required to do a good, safe job.
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4. Required PPE. For any task where PPE is required, employees must understand how to select, inspect, use, and maintain PPE. They should also understand the limitations of PPE and what to do with damaged or defective PPE.
5. Safety controls. If engineering controls, like ventilation or machine safeguards, are required for employees to perform their job safely, then they need to understand when and how these controls should be used. Administrative controls, like permits for confined spaces or time limits for working in areas with airborne chemical hazards, should be understood and complied with.
6. Proper ergonomics. Most industrial jobs involve some ergonomic risks. Employees should understand these risks and the safe work practices required to prevent physical stress, strain, and musculoskeletal disorders.
7. What to do if something goes wrong. Employees should know what to do in emergencies such as fires, chemical spills, and accidents involving injuries,. They should also know to whom emergencies should be reported and how to report them.
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Effective Training in Just Minutes!
To make sure your employees know all they need to know about their jobs, they must be trained in a broad range of safety and health topics. For years, savvy safety professionals have relied on the BLR 7-Minute Safety Trainer to help them conduct effective and efficient safety training.
This essential training resource allows you to provide concise, memorable training easily and effectively in just a few minutes. Materials are ready-to-use, and each session supplies a detailed trainer’s outline as well as a handout, quiz, and quiz answers to get your points across quickly—and cost-effectively.
All told, this “trainer’s bible” contains 50 prewritten meetings covering almost every aspect of safety you’d want or need to train on, in a format designed to be taught in as little as 7 minutes. Major topics include:
—Confined spaces
—Electrical safety
—Fire safety and emergency response
—HazCom
—Machine guarding and lockout/tagout
—Material handling
—PPE use and care
—Housekeeping/slips, trips, and falls
—and dozens more
Just make as many copies as you need of the included handouts and quizzes, and you’re ready to train.
Equally important is that the program ships new meetings every quarter to respond to new and changed regulations. This service is included in the program price, which averages just over $1 a working day. In fact, this is one of BLR’s most popular safety programs.
If you’d like to personally evaluate 7-Minute Safety Trainer and see how it can build safety awareness, we’ll be happy to send it to you for 30 days on a no-cost, no-obligation trial basis. Just let us know, and we’ll arrange it.