Course Description

SPT 103X Safety: An Integrated Part of Management & Supervision

This class will help you understand how a safety position fits or may conflict with an organizations alignment, culture, and/or expectations. We will explore what priority safety may have in the organization.

• Will allow participants to Work in small groups to develop a safety philosophy, goals, and objectives along with developing safety responsibilities for management, supervisors, workers, safety officers, and the safety committee.
• Participants will look at the elements of a safety management program like motivation, enforcement, discipline, equipment, contractors and evaluation of safety performance.
• Will take participant through real life examples of accidents including, what caused the accidents, what kinds of direct impacts that the accidents had in the environment, immediate surrounding areas and what kind of impact the accidents had on the company and management.
• The instructor will take students through the Safety Philosophy, safety goals and objectives along with some safety history.
• We will also look at establishing rules and procedures, process for change, safety communications and motivational factors for employees as well as management.
• This course will teach you how to gain management commitment, develop safety practices in to clear language and useful tools, implementing the system, talk about behavior based safety and ways to improve safety management.