Prevention program employee training

I OSHA believes that a well written and implemented workplace violence prevention program, combined with engineering controls, administrative controls and training can reduce the inci-I dence of workplace violence in both the private sector and federal workplaces. This can be a separate workplace violence prevention program or can be incorporated into an injruy and illness prevention program, employee handbook, or manual of standard operating procedru-es. 

For the most part, future trends will be found in liazard accident prevention, not liazard analysis. To help promote liazard accident prevention, companies should start employee-training programs. These programs should be designed to alert staff and employees about tlie liazards tliey are exposed to on tlie job. Training should also cover company safety policies and tlie proper procedures to follow in case an accident does occur. A major avenue to reducing risk will involve source reduction of hazardous materials. Risk education and communication are two other areas tliat will need iniprovemcnt. 

Prevention program that includes safety precautions and maintenance, monitoring, and employee training measures. 

We often think of unsafe acts and unsafe conditions as the basic causes of accidents. They are only symptoms of failure. The basic causes are poor management policies and decisions, and personnel and environmental factors. Fortunately, most employers now realize that safety and health must be a necessary part of the total operating system. These anployers take the responsibility to prepare a written safety policy and guidelines to instill safety awareness in their employees. Selection of best employees for the job, training, employee plaeanent, and the purchase of safe equipment and supplies are important to a successful accident prevention program. 

The key to preventing catastrophic emergencies inside the pilot plant is adequate technician training. The employee training aspect of the program includes the following sections ... 

Other elements that have been deemed critical to an effective damage prevention program and that have been the subject of past Safety Board recommendations include accurate mapping, employee training, and anergency response planning. This chapter discusses the various aspects of these elements and summarizes the reports and conclusions of the 1994 workshop participants as they relate to these elements. 

Preventioii program. A prevention program is required to prevent accidental releases of r ulated substances. This element generally includes safety precautions and maintenance, monitoring, employee safety training, and other requirements similar to OSHA s PSM. Note that EPAs requirements for the Program Level 2 elements (fisted below) are less detailed than their OSHA PSM counterparts (other differences and similarities between RMP and PSM will be discussed later) ... 

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