Planning for Workplace Safety

Being safe at work has many benefits for yourself as an employee and for the organisation that you are a part of. This course takes a look at all the tools you need to introduce, and craft, an effective safety plan for your workplace. Along the way you will learn about the particular types of responses and plans to handle incidents/accidents.

Learning Objectives

After you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Explain what a safety plan will include.
• Understand and write an Organisational Safety Policy.
• Know the importance of the Introduction to the Safety Plan.
• Develop a basic Communications Plan for a specific accident/incident occurrence.
• Decide upon training solutions to common accidents/incidents.
• Understand and explain the importance and structure of Incident Response Plans and Critical Incident Response Plans.
• Understand Safety Inspections and Safety Audits as methods to identify unsafe conditions and apply corrective action.
• Use a 6S Inspection Checklist to conduct a 6S Inspection.
• Brainstorm policies and procedures that you might find in the Appendix of a Safety Plan.
• Help your organisation write, implement, and review a safety plan.