Forming Effective Safety Committees - Computer Based Training

This Forming Effective Safety Committees interactive safety training course on CD is convenient and easy to use. Individual employees can train at a time that is convenient for them, at their own pace. The system automatically tracks their progress in the course along with any completed quiz scores and bookmarks the learner’s place to make it easy to resume training if training is interupted. Upon completion of the course, and a 100% score, the employee will then be able to print a certificate of completion.

Employee involvement is one of the keystones of successful occupational health and safety programs, and one of the best ways to achieve this involvement is through forming a joint employee-management safety committee. Many agree that an active safety committee is the most effective in-house means of consistently providing a safe work environment. This course introduces managers to best practices in establishing and maintaining an effective safety committee.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the benefits of safety committees
• Recognize the ways safety programs rely on safety committees
• Describe the steps involved in planning and organizing a safety committee
• Describe the effective operation of a safety committee
• Recognize management's part in the various roles of a safety committee, including safety planning and programming, handbook production, setting and communicating policies, hazard identification and control, safety auditing and inspection, accident investigation and prevention, safety communication and training, promoting and implementing safety meetings, safety motivation, and incentive programs
• Describe processes for evaluating and improving a safety committee
• Identify sources of training for safety committee members