Complete Seminar Details
This workshop offers the cost-effective solutions you need to keep your people safe-and to keep OSHA inspectors off your doorstep. You'll get a comprehensive update on the very latest in OSHA's ever-changing requirements, and you'll also find out innovative ways other organizations are successfully using to meet these stringent standards - without busting the budget. You'll gain an understanding of the basics of OSHA record-keeping, learn how to avoid the top 10 most common OSHA violations, get tips for using proactive safety audit tools and discover smart ways to prevent accidents from happening. Fee per person: $199. (Enroll four people and the fourth attends for free.)
What You’ll Learn
- Gain a thorough understanding of OSHA's latest general industry changes and know how to comply
- Use proactive safety audit tools to significantly reduce the number of accidents and injuries in your workplace
- Avoid enormous OSHA fines and hassles by assessing your organization's level of compliance and shoring up every weakness
- Use effective preventive measures to keep your employees and customers safe from the threat of workplace violence
- Know how to comply to the letter with OSHA's rigorous record-keeping standards
- Save your organization major money by slashing accident-associated costs like workers' comp, time off and more
- Recommend ergonomic solutions that can prevent worker injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome
- Spot workplace accidents waiting to happen and know smart, cost-effective ways to correct them
- Boost your safety training effectiveness immediately
- Alert your organization to proposed OSHA changes so you can take them into account when planning for future growth
- Use checklists to ensure that your organization could pass an OSHA inspection with flying colors
- Better understand the "gray areas" in OSHA regulations so you won't be caught off guard when you thought you were in compliance
- Know which resources to turn to for up-to-the-minute information on OSHA rules and regulations
- Recognize the warning signs that an employee is capable of violence and know how to respond
- Use new strategies to correct reckless employee behavior on the job
- Gain employee - and management - buy-in for safety training
- Conduct and document an accident investigation in a manner that fully complies with OSHA requirements
- Reduce the endless hours it takes to keep OSHA records by using smart time-saving tips
- Know the procedure for an OSHA inspection so you'll deal confidently with inspectors should the need arise
- Gain peace of mind, knowing your workers are safe and your organization is fully compliant with OSHA regulations
Who Should Attend
- Safety Managers
- Those involved in training employees in safety rules
- Facility Managers
- Human Resource Personnel
- Business Owners
- Supervisors and Managers
Workshop Agenda
OSHA Compliance - From "Must-Know" Basics to the Newest Regulations
- Unscrambling OSHA's confusing lexicon to define citation, violation, standards, requirements, rules, guidelines and many more
- A review of how OSHA's penalty system works
- Comprehensive methods for assessing your organization's current level of OSHA compliance
- What's the No. 1 most cited OSHA violation? The top 10?
- Understanding the ins and outs of the lockout/tagout standard
- The status of the proposed ergonomics standard - and what changes it will mean for your organization
- Analyzing the potential effects of OSHA's proposed rules for safety and health programs
- Protecting your organization by looking ahead: New OSHA standards proposed by October 2000
- Essential resources for staying up-to-the-minute on changes in
OSHA regulations
Preventing Common Workplace Hazards (and Accidents Waiting to Happen)
- Forewarned is forearmed: Most common safety violations cited by OSHA
- Recognizing how "gray areas" in OSHA's Accident Prevention Guidelines could cost your company a bundle
- How-to's for using proactive safety audit tools to customize a safety audit that guarantees results
- A workplace safety hazards checklist no organization should be without
- Conducting a job hazard analysis that can open your eyes to major problems before someone is injured
- Specifics that your Hazard Communication Program must include to comply with OSHA requirements
- Understanding why employees disregard safety rules - the reasons may surprise you!
- Proven strategies for spotting and correcting reckless employee behavior
- Preventing WMSDs: now the No. 1 cause of lost workdays due to injuries
Effectively Training Managers and Employees on Safety and OSHA Regulations
- How do your training programs rate against OSHA's official training requirements for general industry?
- Understanding exactly who must be trained - and how often - to meet OSHA standards
- OSHA's Prevention and Control Programs and 7-Step Training Programs: Are they right for your organization?
- Top reasons why safety training programs often fail to produce desired levels of improvement in safety
- Essential components a safety training program must contain to be effective
- Strategies for gaining employee - and management - buy-in for
safety training
- What to do before, during and after safety training to boost its
impact and effectiveness
- Training tips for motivating "reluctant" learners who'd rather endure a dental drill than safety training
- Document, document, document: Failing to properly document training efforts could cost your organization plenty when OSHA inspectors ask to see training records
Complying with OSHA's Record-Keeping Requirements to the Letter
- Overview of OSHA record-keeping requirements with an explanation of the recent changes
- A word to the wise: the most frequently cited record-keeping violations
- OSHA requirements on retention, maintenance and location of records
- Ins and outs of the 200 Log and the 101 Form
- How to correct an entry the OSHA way
- Step-by-step guidelines for reporting a work injury in accordance with new OSHA requirements
- Valuable time-saving tips for reducing the number of hours it takes to keep and maintain OSHA records
- How many people in your organization should be trained in OSHA record-keeping?
- Using your records to spot hazards and track accident trends - and significantly improve safety levels
Red Alert! How to Be Prepared for an OSHA Site Visit
- Is your organization among those most likely to be inspected? Find out!
- Valuable checklists that help you spot trouble - and avoid horrendous fines - before an inspector shows up
- Hot spots: A list of places an OSHA inspector is guaranteed to look
- Which records do inspectors scrutinize most closely?
- Walking through the inspection process so you'll know what to expect
- Tips for avoiding the most common mistakes organizations make during OSHA inspections
- What you should know about OSHA's Program Evaluation Profile
- How to contest an OSHA citation - and is it worth it?
- Conducting surprise self-inspections to ensure your organization is fully prepared and in compliance when OSHA comes calling
Program Hours
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Registration begins at
8:30 a.m.
Lunch is on your own.
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend a workshop for which you are registered, you may send a substitute or receive a credit memo toward a future workshop. If you cancel your registration up to five business days before the workshop, your registration fee will be refunded less a $10 enrollment charge.
Sponsor Background:
National Seminars Group, a division of Rockhurst University Continuing Education Center, Inc., is one of the nation's leading providers of continuing education. Each year, we provide more than 6,000 seminars in the United States and Canada, and in our 25-year history, more that 14 million professionals have participated in these programs.
Besides offering a full range of training skills to all professional levels through our one-day and two-day seminars and conferences, we also offer highly-acclaimed books, audiocassette, videocassette and CD-ROM training products for individuals, teams, departments or corporate reference libraries.
Since 1991, our affiliation with Rockhurst University, a highly acclaimed four-year university, ensures our commitment to providing lifelong continuous-learning opportunities. We're certain the combination of continuing education with academic excellence gives you the best and most innovative approach to fulfill your continuing education needs.
Cancellation Policy:
If you cannot attend a workshop for which you are registered, you may send a substitute or receive a credit memo toward a future workshop. If you cancel your registration up to five business days before the workshop, your registration fee will be refunded less a $10 enrollment charge.
