Workplace health and safety management

The Safety & Health Management Course is designed for those working in a variety of workplace settings from Manufacturing, retail, shipping and distributing to healthcare, long-term nursing homes, hospitals and ancillary facilities. This course is based on the most current OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) guidelines for workplace safety. The seminar is offered to the public a few times a year with the majority of courses throughout the year offered to (one or a group of) companies that contact MSC seeking to have a course offered for their facilities.

Target Audience
Manufacturers

Retailers

Shipping and distributing companies

Healthcare

Long-term nursing homes

Hospitals

Ancillary facilities.

Critera Covered
Effective managers have found that involving employees in discussions of methods can:

Identify useful prevention and control measures

Serve as a means for communicating the rationale for decisions made

Encourage employee acceptance of the decisions.

When safe work procedures are the means of protection, ensuring that they are followed becomes critical.

Ensuring safe work practices involves discipline in both a positive sense and a corrective sense.

Create a disciplined environment in which all personnel act on the basis that worker safety and health protection is a fundamental value of the organization.

Depends on the credibility of management's commitment to safety and health protection, through:

Evidences of direct management involvement in safety and health matters

Inclusion of employees in decisions which affect their safety and health

Worksite analysis to identify hazards and potential hazards, stringent prevention, control measures, training.

Having personnel understand the hazards to which they are exposed, why the hazards pose a threat, and how to protect themselves and others from the hazards.

Training is reinforced by encouragement of attempts to work safely and by positive recognition of safe behavior.