Principles of Occupational Safety & Health (POSH)
This class is full!
June 10, 2024 - June 13, 2024
8:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
NSC Georgia Training Center
6425 Powers Ferry Rd. NW
Suite 140 (First Floor)
Atlanta, GA 30339
United States
In-person Training
4.00 days
1395.00 Members/1750.00 Non-Members
Principles of Occupational Safety & Health
Class Details
This certificate in principles of safety is an intensive four-day course covering 19 topics that provide a solid understanding of fundamentals of workplace safety and health. The course focuses on best practices for implementing and managing a safety program.
POSH is a great introduction for anyone new to safety responsibilities and an excellent review for experienced safety practitioners.
We cover the following topics and more:
- How to examine prior incidents to help you avoid mistakes and maximize the effectiveness of your safety initiatives
- Record-keeping to prevent injuries and meet OSHA requirements
- How to develop an emergency action plan
- How to plan and conduct safety inspections
- The impact of industrial hygiene and HazCom standards on your safety plan
This course is 4 days, 2.6 NSC CEUs, 2.6 COCs. Plus, it includes over $350 in safety reference materials.
Examine dozens of important workplace safety topics:
- How OSHA affects your organization
- Uses and benefits of record keeping 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 section and reduce
- Anticipate 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
Plus five all-new modules:
- Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
- Employee Involvement
- Safety Training
- Safety Teams and Committees
- Emergency Action Planning
Course fee includes over $350 worth of reference materials: Accident Prevention Manual (13th Ed.), Administration & Programs CD, Accident Prevention Manual (13th Ed.), Engineering & Technology CD, Injury Facts CD-ROM, and Resource CD.
We now include a resource CD with more than 75 valuable reference documents: Self Inspection Checklist, Job Safety Analysis Form, Causal Factors Checklist, and a variety of OSHA tools and fact sheets.
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