Who Knows What Safety and Health Training

Training is appropriate where safe work performance skills are lacking. 

Before beginning to read this chapter take time to assess where your safety and health effort is at present with reference to the training of your workforce on safety and health. For each of the three topics, you are to circle the number of the option that best depicts your training effort at present. 

Employees learn about employee hazards (how to protect themselves and others) 5 Facility is committed to high-quality hazard training, ensures that all participate, and provides regular updates in addition, employees can demonstrate proficiency in, and support of, all areas covered by training 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT A PRACTICAL APPROACH 

Supervisors learn responsibilities and underlying reasons 5 All supenrisors assist in worksite hazard analysis, ensure physical protection, reinforce training, enforce discipline, and can improve work procedures based on the training provid to them 

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Other schemes for the proactive assessment of safety performance include CHASE ° which concentrates on assessing the individual manager s awareness, attitudes and knowledge of health and safety matters on the premise that if the manager knows what is required he will ensure that it is either provided or achieved. In another scheme, ISRS", the survey is carried out by trained assessors who look at a number of operating facets to determine management and operator safety performance and attitudes. 

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