Oregon OSHA Online Course 100

Safety and Health Management Basics

This material is for training purposes only. Its purpose is to inform Oregon employers of best practices in occupational safety and health and general Oregon OSHA compliance requirements. This material is not a substitute for any provision of the Oregon Safety Employment Act or any standards issued by Oregon OSHA. For more information on this online course and other OR-OSHA online training, visit the Online Course Catalog.

COURSE MODULES

Course Introduction

Assignments Worksheet

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Module 1: Management Commitment

• What is top management commitment - how do you know you have it?
• What is safety leadership - how is it shown?
• Putting safety into your corporate mission
• Reactive vs. proactive safety programs
• The bottom line in safety
• A successful action plan to get to management commitment

• What OR-OSHA says about it
• What is accountability?
• Evaluating your company for accountability
• When is progressive discipline appropriate?
• Management/supervisor accountability
• Employee accountability

• Rewards are great - why they don't always work
• Recognition is better - for long term results
• The big secret
• Reactive safety recognition programs
• Proactive safety recognition programs

• Sender and receiver basics
• Relationship and content level communications
• I'm OK, You're OK theory
• A most important responsibility
• The old suggestion box
• Imagine, workers competing to be on the safety committee

• Murphy's law applied to safety
• What is a hazard?
• Where all hazards exist
• Two strategies: Inspections and the Job Hazard Analysis
• Which strategy is best... and why
• Digging up the roots

• What is an accident?
• Step one - Gathering the information, techniques
• Step two - Event and cause analysis
• Step three - Making recommendations and writing the report

• Education - the big picture
• Perception is reality
• Conducting the education and training survey
• A successful 4-step plan
• Documenting training

• The Evaluation Process
• Structure, Inputs, Processes and Outputs
• Improving the Safety Management System

Quiz Answers

Submit Your Assignments Return here after completing draft responses to extended response assignments.

• Extended response assignments
• Course evaluation
• Certificate information

• Appendix A: Instructor Bio
• Appendix B: Tips on Completing Assignments