Operating Effective Safety Committees Online Training for OSHA Compliance

This online training course can help you:

•   Meet compliance-based safety requirements
•   Reduce risks of accidents and injury on and off the job
•   Lower insurance premiums, workers compensation claims and lost work hours
•   Improve employee morale and retention

Safety programs benefit strongly from employee involvement and one of the best ways to achieve involvement is through forming a joint employee-management safety committee. This course covers the benefits of safety committees and recommendations for developing and operating effective committees.

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

Intended Audience:

Employees, from management through supervisors and workers, who will play an active role in their company or department's safety committee.

Primary Regulations:

•   5 Subpart A 2, General Duty Clause