Details
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
This course covers information for both employees and supervisors on measures to insure safe evacuation of facilities including: preparation for evacuation situations, recognizing egress hazards, safe housekeeping practices, training, emergency action planning, communicating the plan to all personnel, and enforcing the plan. The course outlines the different roles and responsibilities within the organization related to ensuring proper egress safety compliance for the facility.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify various means of egress
• Specify the physical requirements for exit routes to comply with OSHA standards
• Identify the components of an emergency action plan
• Identify organizational training needs related to egress
• Distinguish between employee and employer responsibilities related to safe egress compliance
• Specify actions to take in case of an emergency evacuation
• Identify the components of a fire prevention plan
• Recognize egress hazards
• Apply safe housekeeping practices as they relate to egress
Intended Audience:
All employers and employees
Primary Regulations:
• OSHA 1910.36, General Requirements
• OSHA 1910.37, Means of Egress, General
• OSHA 1910.38, Employee Emergency Plans and Fire Prevention Plans