Our Certificate in Principles of Safety provides you with solid knowledge of safety practices and terminology. Youčll get the confidence you need to implement a comprehensive safety process in your organization.

• Get a balanced perspective of the full scope of occupational safety and health issues.
• Organize and communicate an effective safety program.
• Learn techniques to identify and target hazards specific to your organization, and take actions to prevent incidents and related costs.

Here's what you'll learn:

• How OSHA affects your organization.
• Uses and benefits of recordkeeping to prevent injuries and illness ­ and meet OSHA requirements.
• The reason behind safety inspections and how to effectively plan and conduct them.
• The who, what, when, where, and how of incident investigations.
• The impact of industrial hygiene and HazCom standards on your safety plan.
• Components of the communication process and how to improve the effectiveness of safety messages.
• How to:
  • Recognize, evaluate and control hazards, and determine an acceptable level of risk.
  • Create an effective safety team and facilitate productive safety meetings.
  • Define ergonomics, assess ergonomic risk factors, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Determine when personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used and ways to increase employee acceptance of PPE.
  • Develop an emergency action plan.
  • Use a safety orientation program to improve employee performance and reduce incidents and costs.
  • Implement various employee involvement techniques.

Here's what's new:
In just four days, youčll get the best of POSH, plus five all-new modules:

• Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
• Employee Involvement
• Safety Training
• Safety Teams and Committees
• Emergency Action Planning
• Wečve reviewed and updated the whole program, with more emphasis on best practices for implementing and managing a safety management system.
• For your convenience, we now offer POSH two ways: as an intensive four-day course or presented in a series of four one-day courses. Call your local Chapter for details.
• Resource CD now included with more than 75 valuable reference documents, including: Self Inspection Checklist, Job Safety Analysis Form, Causal Factors Checklist, and a variety of OSHA tools and fact sheets.