Manager/ Supervisor - Safety Training Workshop


These issues and more will be addressed in this
fast moving and provocative two-day workshop;

  • Have you wondered how to change and enhance your organization's safety culture?
  • Help your Supervisors and Managers better understand how to motivate their employees to be safe and prevent injuries.
  • Increase understanding of OSHA as it pertains to your operations.
  • Decrease the cost and increase profits – by proactively promoting safe behaviors in the workplace.

Frequently companies assign supervisory responsibilities to key employees without providing management level training.  The workshops below are targeted towards supervisor development.  They are offered under the “umbrella” of safety training; however the courses are components of a comprehensive management development program.  The courses are a practical, hands-on approach to training supervi­sors and team leaders in effective loss prevention & safety techniques.

This course is for all employees who have management responsibilities and is targeted at improving individual understanding of basic human behaviors in the workplace. Most importantly, participants will walk away with specific management techniques to increase safety, decrease injuries and their associated costs.

Level 1- First day

  • All About OSHA
    • Participants will learn about OSHA what it is, and most importantly, the basic safety laws that apply in the workplace.
    • Understand that OSHA regulations are federal laws that must be complied with.
    • OSHA standards are minimum safety requirements that employers must comply with.  Companies should enhance safety beyond what OSHA requires.
    • Participants will be able to ask about the application of OSHA laws as they pertain to their specific operations.
  • How Accidents Impact Profits-The True Cost
    • In the manufacturing/production environment supervisors are programmed to understand production and quality as it relates to profits.
    • The prevention of injuries and the reinforcement of safe practices should be treated as a “profit” center.
      • It is essential for supervisors to understand the actual cost, both directly and indirectly on the bottom line.
  • Supervisor Safety Responsibilities
    • The job of an effective supervisor is to run an efficient and profitable operation.
    • Building upon the theme from the previous topic, we focus on a supervisor's ability to model behaviors in areas of operational efficiencies and especially in the area of safety and injury prevention.
    • A supervisor Safety Self-Assessment is a component of this topic.
  • Effective Communication
    • How can effective communications enhance departmental safety?  When communicating with employees it is essential that critical safety messages are not only heard, but understood.
      • Supervisor will learn to define communications and understand its importance in the business world;
      • Review barriers to effective communication and how to overcome them;
      • Review and better understand the communication cycle and how to use it effectively;
      • Review barriers to listening and steps you can take to avoid a communication breakdown.

Level 2- Second day 

  • Productive Accident Investigation
    • Supervisors are frequently asked to gather information regarding employee injuries and play an important role in the process.
      • To truly be effective supervisors should understand the purpose of gathering facts and conducting an investigation.
      • They should understand how to collect evidence in a non-threatening way with the ultimate goal of identifying methods to prevent a recurrence or similar circumstance.
      • Participants will conduct a video driven facilitated accident investigation in a production facility.
  • Hazard Analysis Workshop
    • This picture-driven workshop will focus on a variety of hazardous situations and OSHA violations commonly found in the production/manufacturing environment.
    • Using photographs of actual situations, a facilitated hazard analysis will help participants enhance their “safety-eyes”.
  • Understanding Human Behavior-Why People Get Hurt
    • At the basis of every safety program should be a fact-based behavioral understanding of human beings and at risk behaviors.
    • With this basic understanding, supervisors will be provided with simple management tools to enhance workplace motivation and to positively motivate and re-channel employee behaviors.
    • A thought-provoking participant self-assessment of at-risk behaviors is a component of this topic.
  • Top Ten Safety Myths
    • This provocative workshop challenges common safety programs used in the American production/manufacturing environment. 
    • We will rip apart safety programs that are typically used and discuss how they do not lead to lasting reductions in injuries or improve the safety culture of an organization.
    • Most importantly we will address the ten most common safety truths and how it effectively impacts safe behaviors in the workplace.
    • This workshop builds on common themes addressed in the previous topics.

Benefits

Participants who attend both days will be exposed to concepts and behavioral motivations that can be used to effectively change and/or enhance the injury prevention/safety program at their company.  

Each participant will receive an information-packed CD which will include copies of all the instructional materials and dozens of additional safety support and reference materials.